Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Battery test complete

I ran the video camera and arduino temperature logger attached to a 8pack of alkalines until it drained them. Got about 5 hours of logging data on the arduino. The camera made two files. The first was two hours long and fine, the second was corrupted. I'm hoping this was just because the battery failed during a write to the card. The lithiums will last even longer and I don't expect it to be recording longer then 2 1/2 to 3 hours. So we should be good. I hope.

The only test left is to double check the gps module and make sure I can receive and track it from my laptop/car. After that we should be good to go, just need to pick a date and reserve the helium tank.

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