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I believe the standard perfectflite needs .5 seconds.I just ordered an Aerotech EFC – should be a nice little device.

I was at LDRS next to Aerotech and they were demonstrating their new products. In particular ws a nifty littly device that was an electronic delay element. It screwed onto the forward end of the motor and was programmable from…   Read more»

You guys have more guts than I–you can already see a shape to AT’s new plan–make motors so fast, you need AT electronics. OK, unduly cynical. I suggested to Jim A that he continue the legacy products and offer an…   Read more»

Doug, you made me get out the manuals. 😀 And I wasn’t able to find which altimeter of mine does that. It’s either the G-Wiz I have, the Blacksky or the MWC that does that, too. The only concern I…   Read more»

Sounds like a good plan. For redundancy you can use the two electric matches going into the same charge. If you want to have separate charges for each unit, you can program the MC to fire 1 sec after apogee…   Read more»

Doug,That’s perfect, and what I feel it will take to get a reliable ejection charge with these new reloads. I plan to use my G-Wiz LC as the redundant part of my L3 (it’s not the nice G-Wiz MC2 that…   Read more»

I have a G-Whiz MC high G that is rated for 100 g’s. The components are coated in epoxy and perhaps a different accelerometer. Check outhttp://www.gwiz-partners.com/html/g-wiz_mc2.html

Absolutely, Conway. As I write this I’m going through my altimeter manuals for mach delay times. You’re right. The MAWD goes in increments of 2 seconds (remember these are < one second powered flights), my Blacksky AltAcc2C is immune to…   Read more»

But I would like for the manufactures to help solve this problem as the epoxy does void all warranty. I think with a lil creative thought it could be done very easy. They just have to relize things change and…   Read more»

Agreed. Plus we always have epoxy. 😀

Bruce thats a great question. Not only the durabillity but how about those Mach issues. With delays and such I think motors like this can be trick for that. The biggest things Ive seen is Capacitors and tall standing componets…   Read more»

I got an order from Aero and some H699, H999, J1299, and J1999 were sent in the order. I am off to Hellfire this weekend, but I will be at Hartsel next weekend if anyone wants to try one of…   Read more»

Con,NP. I only want warren to sleep well, and carry not a neuron of worry to the great waters. Sure I’ll backstab at every opening but if a thread slips sideways we all survive. But I’ll do my best…   Read more»

Actually John I must agree with warren. yes it is easy for topics to get lost and the thread to get out of whack BUT we should all do our part to keep it that way as much as possible…   Read more»

warren,enjoy. too often in this harried life, enjoyment takes the form of crummy food, movies, quick thrills or other distractions that deliver a small jolt of dopamine but little for the memory scrapbook of life.I am certain the threads will…   Read more»

DELETED Absolutely right. Epoxying caps with a strong epoxy is always a safe way to go. Has anyone mentioned this to any of the manufacturers? (Although it does complicate their repairing them if a cap goes bad.)

As I said, just snake bit. a great bunch of folk and some seriously talented folk fly from there routinely. I’m hoping that next year we can do a NAR sanctioned event from North or atlas as there are many…   Read more»

I fly at crash from time to time, and have only dropped one in the lake (recovered it too). I just get lucky there I guess…

lol, I’ve probably got 20+ launches at Bear Creek this year (only 10 minutes away 😀 ) and no wet rockets yet (knocks on wood). It certainly isn’t a substitute for the north site, but it gets me through between…   Read more»

In the ripleys BION category, I have flown exactly two rockets at crash, on a superb day, and both enjoyed superp boosts–and both got wet. In the first case, some helpful fisherman brought it ashore. In the second, no such…   Read more»