[PSUBS-MAILIST] Opinions About Design

["George Slaterpryce" <gslaterp@hotmail.com>]

I'll be working a little more on BugEye II this weekend, I have an optician 
friend who owns his own shop that's going to make a custom lense for the 
camera portal for me. this will "Complete" the main preasure can of the 
unit.

Now I was going to do a "typical" arrangement of a ballast on top, 
keelweight and wing thrusters... but..... I'm wondering if some sort of 
pontoon and drop weight config would be better.

I.E. I'm wondering if I should make pontoons that can be extended further 
out and up (at a 45 degree angle) from the preasure can by about half meter 
and a keelweight also on some sort of extender that could be lowered the 
same distance.

This way I could completley extend the pontoon style ballast and weight for 
greater stability when needed and retract them closest to the body (main 
preasure can) for greatest manueverability.

I'm just wondering if this configuration would actually give a easily 
noticable performance boost or if on something as small as BugEye II would 
be negligable.

Opinions? Comments? Smack upside the head cause I'm missing something 
obvious?





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