PunkRocketScience
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After the ill-fated flight of my team's Y-wing at Plaster Blaster this year, I no longer trust my Missleworks WRC2. I don't like to fly really big rockets without some manual "chicken switch" to backup the automatic altimeters...
I'm not exactly sure what happened with the WRC2, but it definitely fired while the rocket was still under boost, tearing the Y-wing apart. Not sure if the on board portion failed, the hand held controller failed or it was some kind of outside interference.
Does anyone know of any other radio controlled deployment devices? Preferably an encoded transmitter/receiver set that are tuned to each other, thus preventing accidental deployment by outside interferance...
I'm not exactly sure what happened with the WRC2, but it definitely fired while the rocket was still under boost, tearing the Y-wing apart. Not sure if the on board portion failed, the hand held controller failed or it was some kind of outside interference.
Does anyone know of any other radio controlled deployment devices? Preferably an encoded transmitter/receiver set that are tuned to each other, thus preventing accidental deployment by outside interferance...