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Bdale Garbee and Keith Packard
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This document is released under the terms of the
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holder with the positive (+) terminal facing away from the
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The MicroPeak USB adapter
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MicroPeak stores barometric pressure information for the first
48 seconds of the flight in on-board non-volatile memory. The
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- Start the MicroPeak application and click on the Download
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+ Click on the Download button at the top of the window.
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+ Select from the listed devices. There will probably be
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+ The application will now wait until it receives valid data
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The MicroPeak USB adapter has a small phototransistor
under the hole in the center of the box.
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adapter blinking in time with the orange LED on the
MicroPeak board itself.
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After the maximum flight height is reported, MicroPeak will
pause for a few seconds, blink the LED four times rapidly
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data to a file. If not, you can power cycle the MicroPeak
board and try again.
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+ Once the data are saved, a graph will be displayed with
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reasonably smooth speed and acceleration data, which would
otherwise be swamped with noise.
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- Under the Graph tab, the height, speed and acceleration values
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- The Statistics tab presents overall data from the flight. Note
- that the Maximum height value is taken from the minumum
- pressure captured in flight, and may be different from the
- apparant apogee value as the on-board data are sampled twice
- as fast as the recorded values, or because the true apogee
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- A table consisting of the both the raw barometric pressure
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The File menu has operations to open existing flight logs,
Download new data from MicroPeak, Save a copy of the flight
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the current window or close all windows and Exit the
application.
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+ MicroPeak Graphs
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+ Under the Graph tab, the height, speed and acceleration values
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+ MicroPeak Flight Statistics
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+ The Statistics tab presents overall data from the flight. Note
+ that the Maximum height value is taken from the minumum
+ pressure captured in flight, and may be different from the
+ apparant apogee value as the on-board data are sampled twice
+ as fast as the recorded values, or because the true apogee
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+ Raw Data
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+ A table consisting of the both the raw barometric pressure
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+ Configuring the Graph
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+ This selects which graph elements to show, and lets you
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- Configuring the MicroPeak application
+ Setting MicroPeak Preferences
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The MicroPeak application has a few user settings which are
configured through the Preferences dialog, which can be