Avionics Launch Day Checklist
- Will Merges (RIT Student)
Owned by Will Merges (RIT Student)
- Switch lines have continuity in av bay
- Switches have continuity in body tube and are both set to off
- Charge lines have continuity to the end of the ribbon cables through the bulkhead
- Attach ematches (a twisted pair of two per deployment line) to ribbon cables, labeled 1 and 2 per cable
- Eggtimer Quark set to 1s drogue delay and 1000 ft main deployment – NOTE FOR FUTURE: both computers' main should not be the same altitude for most configurations, blowing two charges at once is bad
- Perfectflite set to 1s drogue delay and 1000 ft main deployment
- Attach diplole and GPS antennae
- Plug BRB battery in
- Power on ground Baofeng(s) and start APRS decoder(s)
- BRB sending APRS packets
- BRB has lock, may need to face body tube towards the sky
- Plug DB9 cable from av bay into body tube bulkhead, take not of which connector is used, should be marked on the top of the bulkhead with a 'D' for deployment
- Plug switch connectors in, one pair should go to the "gold" wires and the other pair to the remaining wires
- Insert av bay into body tube
- Connect DB9 ribbon cables to top and bottom bulkheads, should be in the labeled connectors
- When rest of rocket is ready, insert ematches into blackpowder and tape over
- Arm on pad