Altus Metrum Units Constructed
This page contains Bdale's notes about each unit of TeleMetrum and TeleDongle assembled to date.
sn 1
Full load of v0.1 PCB, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 56k, 10k tacked from each to ground. R17 replaced with short circuit, R18 removed.
Installed in Bdale's Vertical Assault. First unit to be flown on 2009.04.19, on a Cesaroni J335.
Successfully flew Bdale's rebuilt Horizon dual-deploy at Hudson Ranch on 2009.07.18 with a MAWD as backup. The first dual-deploy flight with a TM board in control of ejection charges!
sn 2
Full load of v0.1 PCB, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 56k, 10k tacked from each to ground.
Delivered to Keith Packard for firmware development and use. Flown twice on 10 May 2008 in Keith's Grappler to about 45m on Estes D12-3 motors.
Flew in Keith's Little Dog Dual Deploy at Mile High Mayhem as a payload. The ascent was pretty but the rocket failed to deploy and lawn-darted. The battery and screw terminal block connectors got more or less torn off, but the rest of the board survived and good data was recovered from the flight.
Repaired by Bdale, sent back to Keith on 7 July 2009. Keith reported the baro sensor as flakey, it was replaced in October 2009 prior to NCR Octoberfest.
sn 3
Full load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.04.22, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 100k, 27k tacked from each to ground.
Installed in Bdale's Vertical Assault after sn 1 moved to Horizon, but never flown there.
Pulled and given to Keith to take home from Mayhem.
Lost in Keith's Nike which was lost for a while after an apparently nominal flight in June 2009 at Brothers, Oregon. Rocket was later found and this unit is reportedly still in good condition.
sn 4
Full load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.04.22, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 100k, 27k tacked from each to ground.
Installed in Robert's Lil Nuke.
Lost at Hudson Ranch 2009.07.18 when we forgot to tape the nose cone on and both it and the electronics sled came out at apogee and were not recovered.
sn 5
Partial "ground" load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.04.23 plus beeper and serial connector for use as TeleDongle or for TeleTerra prototype.
Bdale's TeleDongle.
Keith added acrylic LED light pipes and a LiPo for use in RDF after flight.
sn 6
Partial "ground" load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.04.23 for use as TeleDongle.
Keith's TeleDongle.
Keith added acrylic LED light pipes and a LiPo for use in RDF after flight.
sn 7
Full load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.08.08, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 100k, 27k tacked from each to ground.
Pulled from Vertical Assault (never flew there) and taken to Keith in Japan in October 2009 as replacement.
sn 8
Full load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.08.08, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 100k, 27k tacked from each to ground.
Delivered to Keith in early November 2009.
sn 9
Full load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.08.15, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 100k, 27k tacked from each to ground.
Installed in Bdale's Trick-o-Treat 98mm airframe.
sn 10
Full load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.08.15, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 100k, 27k tacked from each to ground.
Installed in Robert's Lil Nuke.
sn 11
Full load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.08.15, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 100k, 27k tacked from each to ground. Accelerometer loaded is MMA2204EG 100G unit!
In G-Spot, this accelerometer recorded 52.8 gee acceleration on a Cesaroni pro29 H399 reload at NCR Oktoberfest 2009!
Beeper failed after a hard landing, replaced 2010.02.06.
sn 12
Full load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.11.05, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 100k, 27k tacked from each to ground. Accelerometer loaded is MMA2204EG 100G unit!
sn 13
Full load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.11.05, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 100k, 27k tacked from each to ground.
Modified 2009.11.20 to:
- use TC1055-3.3VCT713 100ma regulator proposed for v0.2
- route 3.3V instead of v_lipo to the serial connector for SkyTraq GPS
- use v_lipo for pyro voltage instead of 5V with 1000uF capacitor
- added 100uF 1206 capacitor on 3.3V rail
In this configuration, flew two textbook perfect flights on 2009.11.21 at Hudson Ranch in Trick-O-Treat on J motors.
Modified 2011.11.13 to:
- test ADXL78 accelerometer functionality for v1.2 build
- use 3.3k instead of 10k for R2 and R3, to eliminate power-on pyro glitching
sn 14
Full load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.11.05, two cuts and jumps to rewire P1_2 to be SPI memory chip select, R14 and R15 loaded with 100k, 27k tacked from each to ground.
Modified 2010.10.18:
- R10 changed to 27k to allow keithp to test use of 1.25V ADC internal reference with the accelerometer
Delivered to keithp on 2010.10.19.
Modifed by keithp on 2011.03.30 to have 3.3V on the serial connector power pin.
sn 15
Partial "ground" load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.11.18 for use as TeleDongle.
sn 16
Partial "ground" load of v0.1 PCB on 2009.11.18 for use as TeleDongle.
sn 17-21
Full load of TeleMini v0.1 PCBs on 2011.03.07. Minor variations due to parts availability, as follows:
- sn 17-18 have TXC oscillators, sn 19-21 have Abracom
- sn 21 is missing the dual LED
sn 25-26
Full load of TeleTerra v0.1 PCBs on 2010.10.31
sn 27-31
Full load of TeleNano v0.1 PCBs on 201103.09. sn 27 has TXC oscillator, all others have Abracom, no other significant variations.
sn 32-33
Full load of TeleMini v0.2 PCBs on 2011.05.04.
sn 34-36
Full load of TeleScience v0.1 PCBs on 2011.05.05.
sn 37-38
Full load of TeleBT v0.1 PCBs on 2011.05.06.
sn 39-42
Full load of TelePyro v0.1 PCBs on 2011.09.20, except only sn 39 and 40 have magnetic sensors since I only have two samples of the now-obsolete part.
sn 43-45
Full load of TeleScience v0.1 PCBs on 2011.09.22.
sn 46-48
Full load of TeleTerra v0.2 PCBs on 2011.10.23.
sn 49-50
Full load of TeleShield v0.1 PCBs on 2012.01.03, using 3.15V reset controller and the less-good crystals.
sn 51
Full load of TeleMetrum v0.2 PCB on 2010.01.09, with 100g accel and screw terminals.
Installed in G-Spot on 2010.02.06.
sn 52
Full load of TeleMetrum v0.2 PCB on 2010.01.09, with 50g accel and Tyco header.
Went home with Keith from LCA 2010 in Wellington.
sn 53
Full load of TeleMetrum v0.2 PCB on 2010.01.09, with 40g accel and screw terminals.
sn 54-56
Prototypes of TeleMetrum v1.1 loaded with the newer Venus 638 chips for evalutation, loaded as part of the production v1.1 run by Advanced Circuits, received 2011.01.06.
sn 57-60
Full load of TeleBT v0.2 PCBs on 2012.01.07.
sn 61-63
Full load of TeleShield v0.1 PCBs on 2012.01.13.
sn 64-65
MegaMetrum v0.1 PCBs on 2012.03.31, with 2 megabyte flash parts and no high-g accel.
sn 66
TeleFire v0.1 PCB built by Keith on 2012.08.23.
sn 67
TeleLCO v0.1 PCB built by Keith on 2012.08.26.
sn 68-70
MegaMetrum v0.1 PCBs on 2012.08.28.
sn 71-73
TeleBT v0.3 2012.12.19.
sn 74-76
MegaDongle v0.2 2012.12.27.
sn 77-79
TeleScience v0.2 2013.01.12.
sn 80-82
TeleGPS v0.1 2013.03.20
sn 83-85
TeleMega v0.3 2013.05.07. sn 85 has cc1125, the others have cc1120.
sn 86-88
EasyMini v0.1 2013.05.19.
sn 89-91
TeleMini v1.1 2013.05.22.
sn 92-93
TeleMetrum v1.9 2013.08.27
sn 94-95
TeleMega v0.4 P 2013.08.28
sn 96
TeleMini v1.1 2013.08.25. From Phoenix panel.
sn 97-98
TeleMini v1.1 2013.09.15. From Phoenix panel.
sn 100-207
First production run of 108 pieces of TeleDongle v0.2 by Advanced Circuits, received 2010.02.25.
sn 208-261
First production run of 54 pieces of TeleMetrum v1.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2010.04.08.
sn 262-366
Production run of 105 pieces of TeleMetrum v1.1 by Advanced Circuits, received 2011.01.06.
sn 367-690
Production run of 324 pieces of TeleDongle v0.2 by Advanced Circuits, received 2011.03.21.
sn 691-834
Production run of 144 pieces of TeleMini v1.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2011.07.25.
sn 835-941
Production run of 107 pieces of TeleMetrum v1.2 by Advanced Circuits, received 2011.12.15.
sn 942-1049
Production run of 108 pieces of TeleMetrum v1.2b by Advanced Circuits, received 2012.10.29.
sn 1050-1169
Production run of 120 pieces of TeleBT v1.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2013.04.08. All above approximately sn 1050 were lost in the fire.
sn 1070-1189
Production run of 120 pieces of TeleBT v1.1 by Advanced Circuits, received 2013.08.22. This batch later determined to have been built with "suspect" TI cc1111 chips.
sn 1190-1213
Production run of 24 pieces of EasyMini v1.0 by keithp. Build started 2013.10.05
sn 1214-1263
Production run of 50 pieces of TeleMega v1.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2013.12.09.
sn 99
TeleMini v1.1 from phoenix panel
sn 1264-1269
Production run of 6 EasyMini v1.0 by keithp
sn 1270-1377
Production run of 108 pieces of TeleMetrum v2.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2014.01.24.
sn 1378-1593
Production run of 216 pieces of TeleDongle v0.2b byy Advanced Circuits, received 2014.01.27. This batch later determined to have been built with "suspect" TI cc1111 chips.
sn 1594-1602
Production run of 9 EasyMini v1.0 by keithp 2014.01.30
sn 1603-1611
Production run of 9 EasyMini v1.0 by keithp. 2014.02.04
sn 1612-1661
Production run of 50 pieces of TeleMega v1.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2014.01.13.
sn 1662-1664
Prototype build of 3 TeleGPS v0.3 by Bdale 2014.03.11.
sn 1665-1864
Production run of 200 pieces of EasyMini v1.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2014.04.02.
sn 1865-1867
Prototype build of 3 USBrelay v0.1 by Bdale 2014.05.07.
sn 1868-1870
Prototype build of 3 FCtester v0.1 by Bdale 2014.05.11.
sn 1871-1873
Prototype build of 3 EasyMega v0.1 by Bdale 2014.05.14
sn 1874-1981
Production run of 108 pieces of TeleGPS v1.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2014.05.21.
sn 1982-1983
Build 2 TeleFire v0.2 by Keith 2014.07.12
sn 1984-2083
Production run of 100 pieces of EasyMega v1.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2014.08.14.
sn 2084-2086
Prototype build of 3 TeleDongle v1.9 by Keithp 2014.11.06
sn 2087-2302
Production run of 216 pieces of TeleMetrum v2.0b by Advanced Circuits, received 2014.11.26.
sn 2303-2402
Production run of 100 pieces of TeleMega v1.0b by Advanced Circuits, received 2014.12.06.
sn 2403-2406
Prototype build of 3 USBtrng v2.0 by Keithp 2015.01.25
sn 2407-2409
Prototype build of 3 TeleBT v2.0 by bdale 2015.01.29
sn 2410-2517
Production run of 108 pieces of TeleDongle v3.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2015.05.04.
sn 2518-2529
Production run of 12 pieces of TeleMini v1.0 by keithp 2015.02.13
sn 2530-2541
Prototype built of 12 USBtrng v3.0 by keithp 2015.02.22
sn 2542-2667
Production run of 126 pieces of TeleBT v3.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2015.07.16.
sn 2668-2917
Production run of 250 pieces of TeleDongle v3.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2015.10.21.
sn 2918-2920
Prototype run of 3 pieces of TeleFireTwo v0.1 by keithp 2015.12.16
sn 2921-2923
Prototype run of 3 pieces of TeleLCOTwo v0.1 by keithp 2015.12.16
sn 2924-3031
Production run of 108 pieces of TeleGPS v1.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2016.01.06.
sn 3032-3131
Production run of 100 pieces of TeleMega v2.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2016.01.06.
sn 3132-3133
Production run of 2 pieces of TeleMini v1.0 by keithp, built 2016.01.16
sn 3134-3393
Production run of 260 pieces of EasyMini v1.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2016.01.26.
sn 3394-3396
Prototype run of 3 TeleLCOTwo by keithp, built 2016.04.05
sn 3397-3398
Prototype run of 2 TeleFireTwo v0.2 by keithp, built 2016.04.06
sn 3399-3402
Prototype run of 4 TeleFireTwo v1.1 by keithp, built 2016.06.12
sn 3403-3502
Production run of 100 pieces of TeleMega v2.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2016.12.16.
sn 3503-3628
Production run of 126 pieces of TeleMetrum v2.0b by Advanced Circuits, received 2017.02.26.
sn 3629-3631
Prototype build of 3 pieces of TeleGPS v2.0 by Bdale on 2017.04.13.
sn 3632-3634
Prototype build of 3 pieces of TeleFireTwo v1.0 by Bdale on 2017.04.18.
sn 3635-3685
Production run of 50 TeleMini v3.0 by Seeed Studios, received 2017.04.17.
sn 3686-3688
Prototype build of 3 pieces of TeleBT v4.0 beta 1 by Bdale on 2017.04.25.
sn 3689-3938
Production run of 250 pieces of TeleBT v4.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2017.07.21.
sn 3939
Errant TeleDongle v3.0 found in Bdale's collection.
sn 3940-4189
Production run of 250 pieces of TeleGPS v2.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2017.09.16.
sn 4190-4439
Production run of 250 pieces of TeleMega v3.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2017.11.30.
sn 4440-4939
Production run of 500 pieces of EasyMini v2.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2017.12.19.
sn 4940-5137
Production run of 198 pieces of TeleMetrum v2.0b by Advanced Circuits, received 2018.03.10.
sn 5138-5141
Hand build of 4 pieces of TeleLCO v2.0 by Bdale on 2017.05.27.
sn 5142-5145
Hand build of 4 pieces of TeleFireEight v1.0 by Bdale on 2017.05.30.
sn 5146-5395
Production run of 250 pieces of TeleDongle v3.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2018.09.26.
sn 5396-5398
Prototype build of 3 pieces of EasyMega v2 proto 1 by Bdale on 2018.10.12.
sn 5400-5649
Production run of 250 pieces of EasyMega v2 by Advanced Circuits, received 2018.12.27.
sn 5650-5699
Production run of 50 pieces of TeleFireEight v2 by Advanced Circuits, received 2019.01.25.
sn 5700-5701
Prototype build of 2 pieces of TeleFireOne v2 by Bdale on 2019.02.16
sn 5702-5703
Prototype build of 2 pieces of TeleStatic v3 by Bdale on 2019.04.21
sn 5704-5728
Production build of 25 pieces of TeleLCO v2.1 by Advanced Circuits
sn 5729-5980
Production build of 252 pieces of TeleMetrum v3.0 by Advanced Circuits
sn 5981-6480
Production build of 500 pieces of EasyMini v2.0a by Advanced Circuits
sn 6481-6580
Production build of 100 pieces of TeleMini v3.0a by Seeed Studios, received 2020.01.21.
sn 6581-6830
Production build of 250 pieces of TeleMega v4.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2020.02.12
sn 6831-6833
Prototype build of 3 pieces of EasyTimer v1 by Bdale on 2020.04.06
sn 6834-7083
Production build of 250 pieces of EasyTimer v1 by Advanced Circuits, received 2020.05.28
sn 7084-7089
Prototype build of 6 pieces of EasyMotor v2 by Bdale on 2020.07.25
sn 7090-7339
Production build of 250 pieces of TeleBT v4.0b by Advanced Circuits, received 2020.08.17
sn 7340-7342
Prototype build of 3 pieces of TeleGPS v2.0b by Bdale on 2020.08.17
sn 7343-7442
Production build of 100 pieces of EasyMotor v2 by Seeed Studio, received 2021.01.??
sn 7443-7622
Production build of 180 pieces of TeleGPS v2.0c by Advanced Circuits, received 2021.03.24
sn 7623 - 8122
Production build of 500 pieces of EasyMini v1.1 by Seeed Studio, received 2021.04.30
sn 8123 - 8374
Production build of 252 pieces of TeleMega v5.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2021.09.05
sn 8375 - 8854
Production build of 480 pieces of EasyMini v1.1 by Seeed Studio, received 2021.11.07
sn 8855 - 8859
Prototype build of 5 pieces of EasyMotor v3 by Bdale on 2022.04.03
sn 8860 - 8864
Prototype build of 5 pieces of EasyMini v3.0 by Bdale on 2022.05.20
sn 8865 - 8866
Prototype build of 2 pieces of TeleStatic v4 by Bdale on 2022.05.22
sn 8867 - 8869
Prototype build of 3 pieces of TeleMetrum v4.0p2 by Bdale on 2022.10.14
sn 8870 - 9014
Production build of 145 pieces of EasyMotor v3 by Advanced Circuits, received 2022.10.19
sn 9015 - 10814
Production build of 1800 pieces of EasyMini v3.0 by Seeed Studio, received 2022.10.27
sn 10815 - 11253
Production build of 439 pieces of TeleMega v6.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2023.02.09 -
sn 11255 - 11758
Production build of 504 pieces of TeleMetrum v4.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2023.02.18 -
sn 11759 - 12046
Production build of 288 pieces of TeleGPS v3.0 by Advanced Circuits, received 2023.03.28 -
sn 12047 - 12396
Production build of 350 pieces of TeleBT v4.0c by Advanced Circuits, received 2023.04.03 -
sn 12397 - 12646
Production build of 250 pieces of TeleMini v3.0a by Seeed Studio, received 2023.06.12
sn 12647 - 12651
Prototype build of 5 pieces of EasyTimer v2p2 by Bdale on 2024.01.06
sn 12652 - 12653
Prototype build of 2 pieces of TeleLCO v3.0p1 by Bdale on 2024.01.07
sn 12654 - 12655
Prototype build of 2 pieces of EasyMega v3p1 by Bdale on 2024.02.02
sn 12656 - 12657
Prototype build of 2 pieces of TeleFireEight v2.1p1 by Bdale on 2024.02.18
sn 12658 - 12659
Prototype build of 2 pieces of EasyMega v3p2 by Bdale on 2024.03.02
sn 12660 - 13159
Production build of 500 pieces of EasyTimer v2 by Seeed Studio, received 2024.04.16