rocketsam2016
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A lot of folks advise not using electronics for the first time on a cert flight. I've been doing a lot of reading though and I'm *seriously* persuaded by the safety arguments in favor of having redundancy for HPR deployment events. As such, I'm leaning towards using my eggtimer quantum for the first time on my cert flight for apogee deployment with the motor providing a redundant second charge (delay set to be after the altimeter should fire). Either way it will be single deployment of the main at apogee, it's just a question of whether I wire up the altimeter to a charge or not.
This should be safer for me and everyone else and gentler on the rocket, at the cost of increasing the likelihood of human error since I'm complicating the prep process with something I've never done before.
Any strong arguments against doing this? The rocket needs a big H to fly safely enough for my tastes, so I can't try out electronics on it with a G motor.
This should be safer for me and everyone else and gentler on the rocket, at the cost of increasing the likelihood of human error since I'm complicating the prep process with something I've never done before.
Any strong arguments against doing this? The rocket needs a big H to fly safely enough for my tastes, so I can't try out electronics on it with a G motor.