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Post by njordan on Jan 6, 2017 14:01:43 GMT -7
Based on our Flight setup we may want the GS to start out on a building not far from the launch site. Is there a way we can prevent the GS from pointing down and damaging the disk.
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Post by leviw on Jan 7, 2017 10:46:38 GMT -7
One quick but ugly solution would be to unplug the vertical (altitude) servo from the maestro controller, until after you've launched your balloon. That would let you confirm that tracking was working because it would still swivel horizontally (azimuth) towards your payload. Alternately, you could go into the python code for the antenna tracker and increase the minimum lower limit for the altitude servo. You can find that on line 844 of the V6/antenna_dualtracker_GUI_v6.0.py program, which runs on the laptop. I don't know at what point the dish hits the base so I can't say what a good minimum value would be. MSU chose the value 5 which might already be the right value, I'm not sure because our dish has never hit the base. At least, not while using the antenna tracker program.  Good luck, and let us know how it turns out! |
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Post by Robert Winglee on Jan 19, 2017 12:51:19 GMT -7
We added a counter weight which also saves stressing the servo
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