We reverse engineer this insanely complicated masterpiece of cold war engineering, and manage to gyro-stabilize it.
B-52 Astrotracker Part 1: https://youtu.be/nkvN74wuT8w
Previous video on synchros: https://youtu.be/8QvoY4_xBjw
Ken's article on servomotor generators: https://www.righto.com/2024/02/bendix-cadc-servomotor-tachometer.html
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EEVblog #854: https://youtu.be/hzGaO4Kdz2Y
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00:00 Recap of the previous episode
01:23 It uses synchros
01:56 Looking at the telescope optics
02:35 Explanation of the astrotracker innards
07:29 Reverse engineering
10:17 Test stand
11:01 Building the roll axis servo loop
12:38 Synchro servo loop explanation
15:01 First roll axis test, it's unstable
16:33 Adding tachometer feedback, still not right
18:18 Michel gets it to work
19:21 Building the yaw axis servo
20:13 Dephasing cap explanation
22:04 Both axes working!
23:26 Spinning up the vertical gyro
26:15 The astrotracker is gyro-stabilized!