I made it out to the local high school to fly a few rockets. I am using the 11lb AGM 12v battery I bought for my racecar in place of the lawnmower battery that let me down last week.
I had time to fly 2 rockets. "Moch 2" went up on a Loki G70ct with a 8sec delay (ended up being 6, I need to drill the delay less on these 38mm Loki reloads). No damage to the airframe and a fairly straight boost. JLCR released at 200' and a nice soft landing. Sim showed 1450', the micro peak altimeter did not record accurate data, reported only 31.8 meters. It might have been from placing it in the payload tube and sliding it together.
I have been working on getting a 808 camera on my rockets for a while. I bought 2 on line and have determined 1 is DOA. I soldered a pigtail on the board for the other to plug in a 500mah 1s lipo battery, and stripped it down and mounted it onto a custom Sled to slide down into a Bt60 payload with the lense facing out the side of a hole in the airframe.
I set it up in "Gallo 24" a short scratch build with a small payload and 24mm mmt. Its earned the battle scars after 17 flights to date. Went up on a AT D15T-7. Based on sims, previous altimeter data this rocket goes 600-700' on this load, and the chute is sized for a 18-20' decent rate and is flown to get an idea of the upper winds and LZ for the higher flying projects that day.
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I also received the email saying I can go fly high power rockets this Saturday pending weather. I plan to bring my 1/4 scale Viking 7 project just to show and talk with some people and see what if anything needs to be addressed before its maiden flight later this year on a 75mm AT K1000t, or small L.
~John
I had time to fly 2 rockets. "Moch 2" went up on a Loki G70ct with a 8sec delay (ended up being 6, I need to drill the delay less on these 38mm Loki reloads). No damage to the airframe and a fairly straight boost. JLCR released at 200' and a nice soft landing. Sim showed 1450', the micro peak altimeter did not record accurate data, reported only 31.8 meters. It might have been from placing it in the payload tube and sliding it together.
I have been working on getting a 808 camera on my rockets for a while. I bought 2 on line and have determined 1 is DOA. I soldered a pigtail on the board for the other to plug in a 500mah 1s lipo battery, and stripped it down and mounted it onto a custom Sled to slide down into a Bt60 payload with the lense facing out the side of a hole in the airframe.
I set it up in "Gallo 24" a short scratch build with a small payload and 24mm mmt. Its earned the battle scars after 17 flights to date. Went up on a AT D15T-7. Based on sims, previous altimeter data this rocket goes 600-700' on this load, and the chute is sized for a 18-20' decent rate and is flown to get an idea of the upper winds and LZ for the higher flying projects that day.
View attachment 20235.mp4
I also received the email saying I can go fly high power rockets this Saturday pending weather. I plan to bring my 1/4 scale Viking 7 project just to show and talk with some people and see what if anything needs to be addressed before its maiden flight later this year on a 75mm AT K1000t, or small L.
~John