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The launch is rapidly approaching (2 weeks), so it was time to put some paint on Krazed.
Of course, you can't launch the GPS tracker with any old paint job, so it was time to break out the System.
We discovered that if you use run of the mill spray paint, spray it on, wait 5 minutes, then spray it with florscent paint, the florscent paint will craze over and form a 'desert playa' patches, the size of which are dependent on how heavy you put on the top coat. I light coat gives a very fine pattern, with features about 1/4" in diameter, a heave coat gives the result you see in the pics.
This time we were armed, and did a few trials to to see what color effects were possible. Notable ones included green/black, yellow/red, red/black, and red/bue.
So we decided on the red/blue, but the red looked kinda pink, and was to bright, so we put a coat of blue clear on it, and covered it with a coat of clear. So there here he is:
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Nik wrote ...
I knew it was the frequency of the arc flipping on and off, I meant the smaller point of contact VS the larger ones.
I notice this even with my flyback driver that runs at several 10's of kHz, I think it has to do with the surface of the electrodes that the arc doesn't move continuously on them but rather jumps little "steps" because the surface of the ladder is never perfectly even.
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talking about rockets... did you guys see the X-wing fighter with 4 engines in it? its supposed to launch on the 10th but i dunno what the link is. That's a crazy rocket.
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They are still speculating on why exactly it died--it should have worked--the most plausible one I have heard was that the launch rod was to short, which caused it to take off at an angle, which overstressed the 'fins' and lead to the catastrophic failure.
It did make a nice picture though!
taken from here Hopefully no one will come and kill me for rotaing/croping it.
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