[PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive report: Snoopy at Seneca
hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles
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Wed Jun 10 08:26:02 EDT 2015
Alec,
An old hydraulic cylinder works well, you will need a pretty large bore though. big can mean cheap.
Hank--------------------------------------------
On Wed, 6/10/15, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive report: Snoopy at Seneca
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Received: Wednesday, June 10, 2015, 8:20 AM
What
I'd really like to do is find some sort of pressure
vessel I could use for running tests, actually measuring
pressures inside the motor as the ambient pressure
increases. I wonder what could be recycled for the purpose
of creating a small test chamber?
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at
11:24 PM, Alan James via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
wrote:
Hi
Alec,>>> if we have 100% oil and no
trapped air at all it should be the end of the
story.
... No, the oil
will heat up & expand & force it's way out the
seals, then contract & suck in
water.I am just
repeating what Carsten & Emile have found by experience.
You can look at the heat expansioncharacteristics of the oil you are
using to get a worst
case scenario of volume change.AS I have posted before, I like
Hugh's idea of using a regulator that you can dial in a
small amount ofoverpressure & compensate the
motor with or without oil. It alows for
expansion.After a
bit of googling I came across a rubber tube of similar shore
hardness (A65) & dimensions to
theplastic tube you
are using.It was
rated -.95 to +16 bar. So that would mean it wouldn't
crush at 13.9 psi, & with safety
factorsincluded
it could mean it wouldn't crush till 55
psi.I have advocated
to people that they use this hose method to compensate
lights :)The
verdicts not out but I am very wary
now.Cheers
Alan
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All right, lets see
what results that produces - I look forward to hearing. For
my part, I'm going to concentrate on eliminating the
leftover air because I agree, if we have 100% oil and no
trapped air at all it should be the end of the story.
I'm going to put NPT set screws in the nose cones as I
think that will be the easiest way to fill without voids.
I'm also trying to get new armatures, as the commutators
have wear and I want to bring back their youth a
bit.
Best,
Alec
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Jun 9, 2015 at 9:59 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles
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Alec,
There really is no other explanation than air in the
motor. I can't see motor temperature causing it
because the motor is in the most ideal environment (cold
water) and full of oil. The air is compressing and water
is entering past the seal due to shaft rotation and depth.
It wouldn't matter if the hose did not collapse, because
the motor is plumb full of oil in theory. My vertical
thruster has no hose or bladder, it is just full of oil and
it seems just fine, It only has one seal, so no little air
space. It really does not take much air volume to create
the problem, the inside seal will hold whatever small over
pressure we create, until it fails of coarse and that is the
visible oil we see causing dock side shame. :-(
One thing you could do if you want to keep the inner seal is
to pack the void with grease.
I am changing Gamma's system this weekend to the open
tube idea and am confident it will solve my leak.
Hank--------------------------------------------
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Alec,once you
get past an inch or so in length at the diameter we
are
usingthe
external pressure rating doesn't
change.I think
the same would apply to the internal rating; so they
would
be basing the 40 psi
maximum pressure on an unlimited length of
tube.Another
factor may be the cold operating temperatures making it
lessflexible.Alan
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The hose is wound around the motor, so there
are quasi-flattened parts I'm sure. But even if it
were
laid out straight, you would find the high length to
diameter ratio would make it extremely susceptible to
collapse via the general instability failure mode.
There are several types of
PVC, and I wonder if the material properties you've
got
might be for the rigid type used in plumbing. This stuff
is
really soft and pliable.
Problem is, I still have no satisfactory
explanation for why my motors or Hank's seal come
up
pressurized. I'm not convinced that these floppy
hoses
can withstand significant pressure, but I don't have
a
good alternative theory.
> On Jun
9, 2015, at 8:13 PM, hank pronk via
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>
> Alan,
> My gut feeling is the hose will flatten
quite easily as is because it has no support to keep it
round. Just a feeling, can't argue with specs
though.
> Hank
>
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> On Tue, 6/9/15, Alan James via
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> Subject:
Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive report: Snoopy at Seneca
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> Received: Tuesday, June 9, 2015, 7:54
PM
>
> Do
> you mean if it is crimped Hank?Or
> are you saying that just as is it will
flatten
> easily?Alan
>
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> Alan,
> I think
> it will flatten under water right away
because it is not
> round and has little
strength to keep it round.
>
Hank--------------------------------------------
> On Tue, 6/9/15, Alan James via
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[PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive report: Snoopy at Seneca
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PM
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> Hi
>
> Alec,that one
> is also showing 40psi.This is
> a
> Sean type
problem.I guess
> it's a bit like
snapping a match stick.
> Anyone can
do
> it, but try breaking it
> bycrushing
> it from
end to end. In this case
> you can
squeeze the tube
> & bend it but
> try crushing
> it
cross sectionally with
> even pressure
all
> around.A
>
> solution may be to just squeeze up a
section of the hose
> with a hose
crimpso that a
>
>
point of weakness is created for the water pressure to
> continue crushing thetube from
> there along it's length.Alan
>
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> Wow. If
> there is no mistake that is really
> counter intuitive,
>
because the hose feels
> super pliable in
your fingers -
> almost like
> those yellowish rubber lab hoses if you
know
> what I mean. The size I'm
using is half
> the wall
> thickness of what you calculated
> with, if that makes a
> difference. It's
> 1/4" ID X 3/8" OD X
> 1/16"
>
thickness.
> Alec
> On Tue,
> Jun 9,
2015 at 6:46 PM, Alan James via
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> Alec,I had a
> look at the
> specs
on that link. Thanks.The
> 3/8"
ID
> x 5/8" OD X 1/8" tube is
rated for
> 40psi internal pressure.As
this
> is for fuel there could be a
safety margin of
> 4x, so 160 psi
> burst pressure.I ran a
> couple of plastics I have in my
pressure
> program through
> internal and
>
thenexternal
> pressure, & the
maximum
> external pressure was 2/3rds
the
> internal
> in
both cases.This
> could mean that it
would
> take 106 psi before the hose
would
> equalize
>
significantly.The
> diameter would
maybe
> shrink a bit before
> collapsing.Cheers
>
Alan
>
>
>
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> The stuff
>
I'm using is really flexible, and has a
> wall thickness
> of
only 1/16". I'm
> having trouble
imagining that
> the seal
> could offer less resistance than this,
it's
> very soft. See McMaster item
#5552K25.
> Best,
> Alec
>
> On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Alan
James
>
> via
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>
> Does anyone
(Sean)
> have the
>
material specifications in theirpressure programs for
the
> soft pvc that we
>
would be using inour
> flexible
compensation hoses?The nearest I had
>
was nylon, & that had
> a crush
depth of
> 8,000ftfor a 1 meter long
tube, 10mm diameter &
> 2mm wall
thickness.I was
>
>
thinking of using oil filled light housings with the
> wiringrunning through
>
> flexible hose as
compensation, but are having second
>
thoughts.Alan
>
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> I have
>
always
> been a fan of oil compensation
at
> higher than ambient
> pressure, for a variety
> of reasons. The only real downside
> is the
>
environmental impact of potentially losing oil to the
> surrounding water in the event of a
leak, but
> that impact
> can be mitigated with oil
> selection. Positive pressure
> allows you to
>
compensate for volumetric changes in your
>
> compensated volumes
due to the exterior pressure, as well
>
as
> for thermal expansion of the oil,
and if
> you have any
> leakage at all, you leak oil
> out, rather than water in,
> which can be an
>
expensive lesson. Additionally, if you
>
> provide the bias with something like a
spring loaded
> cylinder or elastomeric
bladder, you can
> instrument its
> displacement for accurate
> monitoring of demanded
> compensation volume,
> and potentially detect leaks well in
>
> advance of when they
actually become a problem.
>
Ambient-only compensation has the disadvantage
> of not
> compensating
for boundary-layer
> viscosity effects
on
> rotating shafts,!
> density
>
differences
> (gravity induced exchange
and/or centripetally
> accelerated
fluid) and other small but
> cumulative
effects
> that can contribute to
> water ingress.
>
>
>
>
>
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