RCU Forums - View Single Post - Rocket boosted rusty on the way
View Single Post
Old 08-19-2005 | 10:51 PM
  #1  
tommythecat's Avatar
tommythecat
Senior Member
My Feedback: (2)
 
Joined: Aug 2004
Posts: 2,056
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
From: Butler, PA
Default Rocket boosted rusty on the way

I am almost done building my rocket boosted rustler. I've already seen it done, but so far every version I've seen has had the rockets ignighted manually when starting to roll. I plan to wire this one up so it lights the rockets when I hit full throttle. I am going to light it up with 2 nine volts to save on weight, and i'll rig a simple circuit bridge that will connect when the servo open the throttle all of the way up. I plan to start with 2 a rocket engines, if it doesn't cook (which it shouldn't since I have closed tubes that should just eject the spent rocket engines with the chute charge) I'll try b engines then C, and on up to D, The tubes will hold d's with 1 layer of carboard peeled off of them, which increases the risk of a catastrophic failure, but that is why I plan on working my way up to it. I will get video, but it might be quite a while before I can upload it to my PC because I have no frame grabber...yet

I wouldn't expect a lot of boost from just 2 c rocket engines, but it should get it hauling if I get it near top speed before I light em up.

Now all I need to do is wire it up and test it out.

Check out the pics of it half done.

[link=http://bret.no-ip.com/rocketrusty.htm]http://bret.no-ip.com/rocketrusty.htm[/link]