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I'm looking to make myself some sort of preasure
gauge so I can calculate depth, but the best Idea I can come up with is to embed
a Preasure sensor in a ball of silicon and mount it to the outside of my
preasure hull, I'm thinking that the silicon will transfer preasure to the
sensor evenly as well as protect it from water damage. The biggest problem with
that would be the wires coming out of the silicon ball causing rippage if any
stress was put on them, thus allowing water in however minute amount to get to
the sensor, so I'd have to make some sort of cradle for it so it can't move...
maybe epoxy it onto a machine brass craddle that can be mounted to the
preasure hull which I can then run the wires through so I can connect the
Preasure sensor to the MC this way I can avoid loose wires. Another problem is
would the silicon transfer the preasure so I could get an accurate
reading.
Am I over thinking this, is there some simple
solution I'm over looking?
Illustration of what I'm talking about at http://www.captovis.com/marine/designsketches/preasuresensorandcradle.png Kind
of small and all, but I stick my doodles in that directory so I can reffer to
them later. Kind of like a "design written on a napkin" repository.
Thanks
George H. Slaterpryce III
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