Keith Packard <[email protected]> writes: > Leland Dexter <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hello again, >> While I love all of my Easy Minis my Easy Timer continues to give me >> problems. I set "After motor number" = 1 and "Delay after other >> condition(s)" = 1.5 hoping to get a 2nd stage motor to fire 1.5 >> seconds after booster burnout. Result was a good boost and no >> sustainer ignition. Fortunately my Easy Mini riding tandem saved the >> rocket. > >> Now, to further complicate things, when I try to connect the ET to my >> laptop 95% of the time the communications drops after a second or >> two. Once I was able to stay connected and was able to reset some >> parameters (now going to try "Time since launch greater than" and set >> the Delay after other condition(s)" = 3.0 seconds. Any help figuring >> out what is going on would be appreciated! > > That's likely caused by EasyTimer going into 'pad' mode because it > wasn't sitting flat on the table. If not, perhaps your accelerometer > just needs to be recalibrated. That might also be the cause of the > failed ignition. Because EasyTimer doesn't log flight data, we can't > diagnose the failure after the flight.
Also, make sure you're running firmware version 1.9.6 or later. There was an unpleasant bug in prior firmware versions where EasyTimer could mis-detect boost. Bdale
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