{"id":1076,"date":"2018-01-27T19:40:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T09:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2018-01-27T19:44:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T09:44:30","slug":"testing-out-the-ejection-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/2018\/01\/27\/testing-out-the-ejection-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing out the Ejection charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased the following eMatches to test out the ejection charges.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/ausrocketry.com.au\/igniters-e-matches\/j-tek-lf-electric-match-24-inch-60cm-1.html<\/p>\n<p>The recommended firing current is 1 Amp. The Duracell battery I want to use should be able to supply this without any trouble. I wish to conduct three tests:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Test 1 &#8211; firing igniter standalone<\/li>\n<li>Test 2 &#8211; Fire igniters from the Raven 3<\/li>\n<li>Test 3 &#8211; Ejection test of drogue parachute.<\/li>\n<li>Test 4 &#8211; Ejection test of main parachute.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To perform all these tests I created a test-fire box using old Cat-5 cable and some old parts lying around. Here is a movie describing what I made.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aHFuniFdZ8A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t neat\/tidy, but very functional and safe. I can install all deployment charges without having the battery connected at all.<\/p>\n<h2>Test 1<\/h2>\n<p>I wanted to convince myself that the igniter would work on one of these nine volt batteries with this ignition system. Below is a video showing this.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8c1ydJW_B6c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The remaining tests will come in other posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased the following eMatches to test out the ejection charges. https:\/\/ausrocketry.com.au\/igniters-e-matches\/j-tek-lf-electric-match-24-inch-60cm-1.html The recommended firing current is 1 Amp. The Duracell battery I want to use should be able to supply this without any trouble. I wish to conduct three tests:- Test 1 &#8211; firing igniter standalone Test 2 &#8211; Fire igniters from the Raven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/2018\/01\/27\/testing-out-the-ejection-charges\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Testing out the Ejection charges<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,5,15,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1126,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions\/1126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leederville.net\/rocket\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}