AYUCR
Tips

• Remember the number of pictues that timer will take per flight is (Number of Groups) x (Number of Pictures) Don't forget to check this or you may get too many or too few pictures per flight.
• Too only take pictures at apogee use a program like wRasp to calculate the time to apogee and enter it as a Launch Delay. After liftoff the timer will pause up to 25.5 seconds before taking the first picture.
• The haze of summer can produce fuzzy, boring pictures when you launch your rocket very high. To get pictures at apogee and then again close to the ground calculate or observe the descent rate for your rocket. Program the timer to take two groups of pictures with no Launch Delay. Insert a Group Interval to allow the rocket to descend closer to the ground before taking the reaminder of the pictures.
• If you accidentally activate the timer while in Armed Mode quickly turn off the power or switch the timer back to Standby Mode. The timer will immediately stop taking pictures. If you powered the timer off it will power up in Post-Flight Mode. Disarm it to reset it.
• To program the timer to take as many pictures as fast as possible first, make sure you have trimmed the controller. Second, set the Number of Groups to 1 and the Number of Pictures depending on the number of exposures on the film you are using. Make sure there is no Launch Delay.
• Most film has extra exposures on each roll. A roll of 24 often has 26, a roll of 36 sometime 39. Take this into account. If you expected your camera to rewind the film after a particular flight read up on the manual rewind button on your camera or just burn off the extra exposures to use up the roll.
• Some cameras cycle more slowly when they have film in them. If you test the camera's cycling speed without film and then fly it you may get dropped pictures. The Olympus Stylus can cycle in 0.8 seconds without film but needs 1.2 seconds with film. Take this into account when setting the Picture Interval and Trimming the Controller
• Setting the Keepalive flight parameter to a value of 1 will trip the shutter every 10 seconds while the controller is armed. This can be useful while bench testing the controller and trimming the shutter parameters. The advantage is that you need only arm the controller to start the cycle without needing to simulate launch.