Re: sport rocket staging timer



Smaug Ichorfang wrote:
Fred Bloggs <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:481B18AB.5060907@xxxxxxxxxx:



That is unnecessarily complicated and RS has dropped their logic line.
How come you can't use the g-switch alone to trigger the circuit and skip the timing from liftoff? The amateurs can't figure out how to do it? And why do you need a delay from 1st stage burnout to 2nd stage ignite, why can't you just use the g-switch dropout to trigger the 2nd
stage igniter immediately?


Mignt not want to ignite the second stage at )g. This might not be moment of burnout as solid fuel engines taper thrust and not "turn off". Might want to coast a bit before staging - these are very powerful engines. Amateures *did*/do figure out how to do it (obviously).

So these rockets reach some kind of terminal velocity during boost, then how come you can't use a negative g-switch to activate a delay + ignite for the second stage?

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