The only major remaining part of this project is the ignitions system. With the weight of the rocket i rely cant afford a single failed motor ignition, so i would like to avoid wire clips and 5 ignitors if i can, especially estes ones. I have been designing a mostly 3D printed spider ignitor and tested version 1 yesterday.
The ignitor appears to have worked successfully, with a plume coming out of all 5 nozzles and successfully ignited a motor i put over the central nozzle. The ignition system took no damage in the test which is excellent, other than to some aluminium tape i lined and capped it with, with no melting or breakage.
All was not perfect however due to failings of my own design, the twist lock cap did not seal well with the main body resulting in a large pressure leak through the base of the igniter, wasting most of the charge, no damage was done however and i have redesigned the whole system and am reprinting it now, hopefully to stop this problem.
I would like to test the ignitor at night however to see the flames if possible to confirm all is working as intended, also I have no idea how much pyrodex is to much or to little for this task, what i used for the first test i think was probably a bit much.
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More will follow tomorrow when i have finished version 2.