Sorry no build photo...wish I did.
The battery was in the nose cone, and telemetrum in the av-bay. If tele
is all the way back in the av-bay the wire to the battery would break,
or pulled free. I packed foam packing material between the end of the
bay and tele. The bay is so tight, screwing it down would be impossible,
On 02/21/2011 06:36 PM, Bdale Garbee wrote:
On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:53:31 -0500, Bruce Harris<[email protected]> wrote:
I am not entirely happy with Mariah. The av-bay is too
cramped and it was a challenge to wire up. There is not good way to hold
down TeleMetrum, double sided tape was provided with Mariah for that.
Wow! Tape !?! Yeah, really makes me think somthing shifted and either
pulled the battery cable loose, or a switch wire, or something like
that. You had the battery in the nose, right?
We've flown high-g flights without problems, but I've always had the
TeleMetrum screwed down with either steel or nylon 4-40 hardware, even
when we did bays in 38mm phenolic coupler for my son's RG-2
design... fitting things solidly into small airframe takes creativity,
for sure!
As Keith suggested, if you have any build photos you can share, I'd love
to have a look at what you did. I haven't seen a Mariah up close yet.
Good chance it slipped and broke the battery cable. It was a high G
flight, gone in a blink, one of the fastest I have seen. If I get it
back and the data is available I will post it.
Sure hope you find it! Glad to hear your EX load flew well, at least...
Bdale
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