boatgeek
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Do you have a photo of the casing post-burn? I'm not seeing evidence of a burnthrough on the photos you've shown so far. Unless that's a burnthough and not a rail button on the yellow rocket.Yeah, I think the thrust vectoring effect was either because the Pro24 6G motor case had a burn through low down, OR, as I suspect is more likely, because the sparky exhaust might have been too aggressive for the tail cone retainer and maybe it burned through on one side. The tail cone retainer was thick fibreglass with a thick layer of JB Weld laid up on the inside surface to ablate without burn through. It has flown plenty of times, and I've cleaned and refreshed the inner JB Weld surface several times, but its never flown with a sparky motor. See the pictures below.
The motor issue aside, I'm left wondering why the EasyMini didn't fire any deployment charges. I'll have to look into the functionality some more, but even though the rocket clearly didn't achieve the peak altitude expected, it still should have detected a launch and it should still have sensed that an apogee had been reached and descent had begun, so why didn't it decide to fire either or both of the drogue and main charges?
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