At 10:32 PM 11/18/2002 -0500, Alex Fraser wrote:
Could  valve chatter have caused the chugging? There is an upstream
pressure change due to acceleration of the fuel.  Can you describe the
system? Is there a drawing?

It's a ball valve in a straight piece of pipe. Ball valves do not chatter.

-p



Randall Clague wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 11:41:33 -0500, Alex Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
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> >Was this rocket testing a constant pressure feed?
>
> Yep.  Worked, too.  The acceleration trace, which on KISS II showed a
> decline as the tank blew down, shows a flat 5 g.  Acceleration should
> have increased as the vehicle got lighter, and in a vacuum it would
> have; down here, the drag almost exactly offset the mass change.
>
> -R
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