Flight of October 27, 2007

This was the weekend of our local (Twin Cities, MN) NAR chapter, MASA monthly launch. I selected a scratchbuilt D-Region Tomahawk made from BT-70 tube, an F20-4W Econojet motor (the old phenolic econojet) and a tough PML 24" parachute. I expected the delay to be a bit short, but I just didn't have the guts to use a 7 second delay for this flight. By the time I got to this flight it had become somewhat windy, maybe 10mph.

Here's a plot of all the data:

Clearly visible is the long time from powering it up to launch (I watched a couple of other flights) and the long walk over to where the rocket landed (I didn't mind the long walk, as I could see I was walking over to a good, safe landing of my $200+ data logger).

Data from just the flight portion of the data:

Data from the pressure sensor.

There is so much noise on the pressure sensor that other than the general shape, it's not useful. The launch site is actually at about 850' MSL.

The X/Y/Z accelerometer:

The ADXL330 accelerometer is supposed to be 300 mV/g (average) @ 3V. I was running it at 3.3v but the values I've seen are much higher.

0g 1g -1g
A/D Count 513 481
A/D Count 512 493 530
Volts 1.650 1.589 1.708
Difference 19 18
Difference 0.061V 0.058V

But there is a lot of noise in this data.

The rate gyros:

Are you a data junkie? Raw Data
Config Column # What
Line # 1 Data file line number (implies time)
AD1.5 = Y 2 Pressure Sensor: MPXAZ6115A
AD1.4 = Y 3 X Accel +-18G, Vertical axis
AD1.3 = N - Y Accel +-18G, Horizontal axis
AD0.3 = N -
AD0.2 = N -
AD0.1 = Y 4 X Rate, Horizontal axis
AD1.2 = Y 5 Y Rate, Vertical axis, + = clockwise
AD0.4 = Y 6 Z Accel, Horzontal axis
AD1.7 = Y 7 Y Accel, Vertical axis
AD1.6 = Y 8 X Accel, Horizontal axis



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