Survey: What rate of turn gyros are you using?

[windell747]

Just out of curiosity, for those of you who are using gyros, what are your gyros rated for in terms of turning rate? The 90deg/s is too low and I'm thinking about buying a 150deg/s gyro, but not sure if that is the way to go.

Thanks,
Windell

[Samuel H.]

We are using last year's 150 deg/sec gyro. It seems to work well, but we didn't test this year's gyro to see if it would be sufficient.

Good luck,
Sam

[Richard Wallace]

Last year's 150 deg/sec gyro (ADXRS150) integrated circuit is a COTS component, available from distributors such as Digikey, so it can be used.

However, the 2007 kit-of-parts circuit card that included that same gyro is not a COTS component, so it cannot be used this year. See this official Q&A response (http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=8757) posted by GDC yesterday.

[Joe Ross]

We've used ADXRS300 for the past two years.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

Our 300 */s gyro is too slow. :(

[billbo911]

300 deg./sec.