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I gotcha, that makes sense. I suppose then trying to find something (an accelerometer) with a little more acceleration tolerance would be best then for my needs.

Good to know. Time to break out the high school physics book!

Yep, about 2ft!

Open Rocket estimates 34.6Gs So with some careful mounting I might be able to pull it off?

I’m pretty sure with AltimeterThree it allowed for the 24g limit to be surpassed, if and ONLY if you didn’t exceed the altitude threshold. Would the FS Comp or any other accel/Baro combination altimeter also do something this or does it depend on the product? Is this simply just because it used...

I’m looking at like a 60 mph deployment. The chute will he contained in ChuteRelease and attached via 6 foot of nylon shock cable. Can’t speak for the integrity of the body tube, which is what I was hoping to see in some tests. Mainly just concerned about whether or not I can get an accurate...

With these G-Force restrictions, will they essentially make all data recorded at those forces unreliable?

If you are "pushing the limits", how are you deploying a parachute? Generally motor delay is never long enough for a flight that pushes the limits. Well, as crude and awful as it may sound, we are sort of “hoping and praying” that it will slow down enough after separation. We have a super...

I’m trying to finish a project I’ve been working on for three years now. The problem is this project pushes the physical limits of what’s possible with this specific design, so everything has a very very small margin for change in design without total reconstruction. And unfortunately I’ve...

It would appear Open Rocket is ignoring drag (or extremely reduced it) or something of the sort. I simply took my OR file from my PC, which it works fine on, to my laptop...and now there's an issue. All of my preferences and overrides are the exact same, but instead of a 13fps landing I'm...

I’ll be using it for an experimental rocket specifically designed for use with Alt3. I might just order and FS and throw in some weight to maintain design requirement but we will see. But those little things would be fantastic for tests.

It looks like John is working on getting the hardware and applications updated. As of Christmas Eve, he was testing the iOS application. I think an AltimeterFour is also in the works.

I checked, BeeLine’s guy is Greg Clark. I can’t find Beans’ contact info. Think the Jolly Logic email would suffice?

I have not, I guess I could try that. Isn’t that also the BeeLine transmitters guy?

Hey, been a minute. So we’ve decided to try again. The group was hanging out one evening and we got to laughing about losing the last two rockets and then we got to talking about trying for Mach again. The design is good. It should work. About a month and a half ago we launched a test with a...

Hello, For the last two years, myself and a group of people from my high school have been working on an experimental rocket and were using altimeter three because of the easy to use interface (and relative small size). We lost ours during our last launch and need a new one to continue the...

I had both attached. And makes sense, redundancy is never a bad idea[emoji23]

The rocket I flew went much higher than expected. Lesson learned.

I’ve lost quite a bit of money twice...had a close call on a third time as well. My advice: if you’re going to put something expensive in your rocket, pay the money to get something that will lower your risk factor by the most it can be lowered...for example...instead of a beacon, use APRS. I...

Typically I use an antenna “guard” if you will, and I did not this time pretty much because I forgot and didn’t think it was required. My theory is that the antenna was damaged in the separation phase. And yes, mine had a battery shrink wrapped to it, I used a 70cm radio beacon, and tracked it...