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Prepping the Flight Computers, all from G-Wiz Partners. The triad bay on the left comes from the heart of my GLR <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/2197152125">Sledgehammer</a>, and it holds three pods (for redundant flight computers + GPS/RF telemetry). The blue light is on my shiny new <a>HCX</a> computer, which can take 112 g’s and will log speed and altitude continuously to an mini-SD card so I can get a graph of the flight details afterward. This will be fun for the multiple airstart motors I plan to fly on Saturday for the <a>Brighthawk’s</a> first flight. The middle pod is a retrofit from my supersonic <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=firestorm54&m=tags&w=44124348109@N01&s=int">Firestorm54</a>, which I use in my kevlar-wrapped LOC Expediter with <a href="http://www.revver.com/video/669531/strap-on-video-rocket-launch-on-k185">strap-on videocam</a>. It has my old “beater” LCX computer which has a damaged barometric sensor from the various BP explosions it has felt. I chose this one because Saturday's flight will be a bit dodgy with a L730 thermoplastic motor from a Canadian aerospace company in there, and I may never see it again. =) The bottom pod has a shiny new LCX – with protective epoxy coating this time. It’s in a new avionics bay that I can add to three different 4” airframes (including the Telstar <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/872758351">night rocket</a>). This time, I will test it in the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&w=44124348109@N01&q=loc+iv&m=text">LOC IV</a> with an Animal Motor Works <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/1394306653">sparky</a> motor, and strangely enough, a book for payload (part of a 3rd party marketing campaign). Your mileage may vary. RocketMavericks cross-tested the reliability and accuracy of dozens of flight computers, and only G-Wiz passed. Here’s a <a href="http://www.revver.com/video/349150/rocketmavericks-rocket-computer-test">short video</a> of the test harness giving a symphony of beeps out in the Black Rock Desert. |
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| Source | G-Wiz |
| Author | Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA |
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