ActingLikeAKid
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I feel like this may have been asked already but my search skills are off today - I blame being sick.
On my scratch HPR build, I'm starting to think about my harness layout.
General specs:
About 1.75 lbs dry, twice that with a 38mm DMS in it.
About 4 and a half feet long, 54mm lower half, upper half is 38mm->29mm.
I know that some folks swear by the "5x the rocket length" rule for shock cords, but that seems excessive - that would be over 20 feet of cord. I'm not using dual deploy, just a 36" chute with a Chute Release.
I'm thinking about 10 feet from the top of the BT to the chute, then another 4 feet from the chute to the "nose" (I say "nose" because the rocket splits about in half - the upper section is about 27" long).
Then I started getting concerned about things getting tangled. Would it be simpler to just tie the chute to the eyebolt in the "nose"? This seems like it would reduce tangling but it also seems like this is something nobody does, so there's probably a good reason....
On my scratch HPR build, I'm starting to think about my harness layout.
General specs:
About 1.75 lbs dry, twice that with a 38mm DMS in it.
About 4 and a half feet long, 54mm lower half, upper half is 38mm->29mm.
I know that some folks swear by the "5x the rocket length" rule for shock cords, but that seems excessive - that would be over 20 feet of cord. I'm not using dual deploy, just a 36" chute with a Chute Release.
I'm thinking about 10 feet from the top of the BT to the chute, then another 4 feet from the chute to the "nose" (I say "nose" because the rocket splits about in half - the upper section is about 27" long).
Then I started getting concerned about things getting tangled. Would it be simpler to just tie the chute to the eyebolt in the "nose"? This seems like it would reduce tangling but it also seems like this is something nobody does, so there's probably a good reason....