We're taking orders now, we expect to be shipping them sometime next week. We have all the parts, we just need to finish the documentation... we don't want to ship it out without instructions!
Yes, it comes with two 10' 750# Kevlar shock cords. We would have liked to include Nomex, but that would have been enough to push the selling price over $100, and chances are that anyone who's advanced far enough in hobby rocketry to build this rocket probably has some dog barf laying around anyway. You could certainly add one... but for our test flights we used dog barf. I got a 5# bucket of it to kill...
You COULD read the description........
Same here. I can think of many times in the past couple of years when this would have been the ideal recommendation for someone moving into mid-power, high-power, or electronics. That said, this should go higher on a baby H than a giant 4" kit like many use for L1, so I'd think a tracker would be a good idea if flying it with more than a baby H at many fields.
That sounds about right. I have two rockets built on 3" OD tubing, one which should be much heavier than yours and goes to 4k on a full I, and one which should be somewhat heavier and goes to 3k on an I200. My mind sim was therefore guessing 4k or so on an I200. With dual deploy it shouldn't go far enough in reasonable winds not to be visible under main, but there's a lot of sky to search if it were to get lost in the haze on the way up.
This would be a great place to use one of Inverted Pursuit's products. Our club has Featherweight trackers to loan. Most of my tracker stuff goes in a nosecone "tube", but I've also got the Featherweight "shroud", and I'm looking at the nosecone sled system for the 3" BMS nc. (I've already got one in 54mm)
For my own stuff, I put the tracker in the nose, but I also have a BT55 capsule for an Eggfinder Mini that can hook into any larger rocket anywhere there's a good loop for a quicklink or similar. I bring the capsule to launches just to lend to folks, rather as @SnapRoll kindly lent me a capsule with a Featherweight in it when I brainfaded and left the house without the batteries for my Eggfinder on the morning of my first L1 attempt.
My son ran out of classes to choose from this summer session so he's free and order placed. Bam!I wonder if I can use this model to get my 20 yr old son interested. He's already on the hook for helping me track staged flights.... hmmm. More than anything I think I want to build it so I can still say "I've built at least one of everything Cris makes"
I've been saying it a lot since this thread started. Still waffling but I haven't pulled the trigger yet because I have too many rockets on the build pile.Said no-one ever.
You’re a funny guy, John.
You tried Van Tiel Propulsion for eMatches?
I've seen their pyrotechnics site (which doesn't have anything) but apparently they have a seperate site only available for NZRA members. I've sent them an email anyway, thanks for the suggestion.
Thank you, that'll be helpful. There are a few DIY options I'll be able to play around with if I need to, it would be nice to have a "safe bet" though.
Thank you! I'll of course do some testing when it arrives, is good to know there's a backup option of I can't obtain ematches.
Yeah, but looks ain't everything.Said no-one ever.
You’re a funny guy, John.
Is this https://a.co/d/7Whna0w the battery you’re using?
