Water Rocket Parachute Mechanism
You may loose your parachute but you ll have a better chance at recovering your expensive rocket and payload.
Water rocket parachute mechanism. The other common technique is to separate the nosecone and have the parachute come out in line with the rocket axis. For full step by step details visit us at. The mechanism is based on a simple clamp that holds down a parachute cord. This week we show we make the newly developed parachute deployment system for model rockets.
The web companion to this video is here. There are other potential applications for the servochron but this document focuses on the water rocket single dual parachute deploy application. At the appropriate time the clamp is released by a servo motor and in turn releases the cord. There are different ways to eject parachutes from water rockets.
The parachute is recessed into the space between the bottles which reduces the drag on the parachute. Let s begin with the basics. A parachute deployment mechanism the most common recovery system for a water rocket ejects the parachute at the right time. That sounds pretty easy but in fact it is one of the most sophisticated tasks when building a water rocket.
Although the parachute above is fitted to the side of the rocket there are other places where it can be mounted. On the left is an example of the mechanism used on a bigger booster. The technique we like to use is called side deployment aka horizontal deployment where the parachute is deployed in a perpendicular direction to the rocket body axis.