Parrot Help

[RocketwhizParticipant]

I tried using my new parrot today. I’m having problems getting the data into excel correctly. When I import the text file it skips a row between data sets. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks, Mark

[AdrianParticipant]

I haven’t run into this myself, but I have heard from other customers that this is a problem with the newest versions of Excel. If you don’t have a previous version of Excel available, there are a couple of other work-arounds. Jim Yehle has been working on download and post-processing programs, available here: http://www.xmission.com/~jry/

Another work-around is to use some Excel formulas to look up the data while skipping lines.

Let me know which of the options you’d like more details on. Eventually I’d like to take the work that Jim has done so far and make it easier to install and use, and add in the deployment programming.

[RocketwhizParticipant]

I’m using 2000 version of Excel. I might have a 95 version somewhere. I downloaded both programs from Jim’s web page I’ll play with them & let you know.

Thanks

[AdrianParticipant]

I have been using excel 2003 without any trouble so I don’t recommend going back to Excel 95. I did take another look at the hyperterminal settings under properties/settings/ASCII setup, and there is a selection box for appending line feeds to line ends. Was that checked for you?

[RocketwhizParticipant]

No, I recaptured & imported the file again but same result. I’m not having any luck with the programs I downloaded from Jim’s website either. I can’t get them to connect to the parrot. Were still trying though.

Thanks, Mark

[AdrianParticipant]

Mark,

Jim’s program looks at a batch file that’s among the files that are zipped up to see which port to use. You have to modify that to match whatever port number the Parrot gets hooked up to. One of the next steps in making Jim’s program workable is to select the port with a GUI. That hasn’t happened yet, though.

Just to be clear, did you check that setting in Hyperterminal?

-Adrian

[RocketwhizParticipant]

Yes,

What should the emulation be set to? Mine is set to auto detect is that correct?

Actually here’s the whole setup as it sits right now.

In the settings tab the following is what’s selected

Terminal keys

Ctrl+H

Auto detect

ANSI

500

Input Translation is set to

Shift-JIS

ASCII setup

Nothing is selected for ASCII sending

Line delay & character delay are both 0

Receiving for ASCII only Append line feeds to incoming line ends is selected.

Does that all sound right?

[AdrianParticipant]

Having “Append line feeds to incoming line ends” selected could be the problem. Try de-selecting that and let me know if that fixes it.

[John]

Hi All,

I am wondering if anyone has tried the Parrot in the Giant Leap avionics bay yet (http://giantleaprocketry.com/hpdefault.asp)? I really like the idea of having all of the “valuables” connected into a single unit and this bay attaches directly to the fore end of my 38mm Dr. Rockets. Size-wise it looks good. It appears that additional holes for wiring may be needed for a 2-stage recovery deployment but that isn’t a problem I wouldn’t think? Are these wiring holes enough to stabilize the pressure inside the avionics bay for the Parrot?

Appreciate anyone’s thoughts and opinions on this.

Thanks,

John

[RocketwhizParticipant]

I’ve tried it both ways. Same result. I also tried cut & paste, and importing. No luck.

Are you going to OF?

If so, if you don’t mind, maybe we can sit down & figure it out. It might be something else I’m doing wrong. I can bring my laptop.

I have a rocket itching to set a new B record, maybe even C.

Thanks
Mark

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