Avionics Launch Day Checklist

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

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