Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Opinions About Design

["Brian Cox" <ojaivalleybeefarm@dslextreme.com>]

A picture would help !

BC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Slaterpryce" <gslaterp@hotmail.com>
To: "PSUBS Mailing List" <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 07:58
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Opinions About Design


> 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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