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Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 12:41
PM
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Electric
PSUB
Michael,
You made a good start with R/Csubs and reading. I shall
give some awnsers an commets to your questions.
At the list is steel the material of choise for
reliability and ageing reson
60m operating depth
100m crush depth MAX (where I will run it
(fresh water) won't be deeper than that)
[Emile D.L.van Essen] for these depths a safety factor of 2+ is
common
1 ATM
Fast
[Emile D.L.van Essen]
Why?
Electric
Cheap as possible
'Trailerable'
No compressed air/CO2 absorbants
[Emile D.L.van
Essen] Ballast control should be done with compressed air. A life
support system is easyer and cheaper than yoiu
think.
Inside I want a seat, can't be doing with lying
on my front.
Ideally 1 man operation for in/out the water -
(Think that's all)
It needs to be as cheap as possible,
however obviously I don't want to endanger my life. So I was thinking about
CCTV cameras on the outside in pressure housing, with a array of monitors on
the inside. Any thoughts? Things I thought about : Increased
temperature and battery draw. This would however, allow me to bypass
the acrylic dome aspect.
[Emile D.L.van Essen] I can help you with a dome (580 mm
O.D. @ 30 mm thick) The view is worth
it!
Propulsion. I have a 2HP (36V) electric
motor left over from another project, now would this be enough to propel me
through the water at a reasonable speed? Not sure if you call it dynamic
diving (use of hydroplanes to dive) but that is what I was thinking and so
will need some speed.
[Emile D.L.van Essen] You can make a R/C sub slightly
buoyant and you can dibe dynamic. A psub need freeboard . Ballast tanks
should have 20-30 % boats volume; that dont dive with
2 HP.
The other thing that I always try to aim
for when I made subs in the past, was to make battery power the only
limiting factor. So things like CO2 absorbant/air scrubbers need to be
'bypassed'. I was thinking about changing the air every 10? minutes so as to
eliminate this problem (open hatch, nothing fancy). Anyone see a problem
with this?[Emile D.L.van
Essen] As said, a LSS is not so difficult but a internal space of 500
liter gives a safe dive time of 1/2 hour. You can use dive gear for
emergency.
Groet,
Emile