Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Opinions About Design

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

Ok, attached is a front view of how BugEye II is configured.

I'm thinking of taking the keel weight, (the black dot) and putting it on 
some sort of telescoping arm so I can drop it down furhter, and splitting 
the BCU (the white squarish box) into two pontoons and also putting them on 
some sort of telescoping arm so they can be pushed out futher on a 45 degree 
angle so they will be not only further apart but also futher from the main 
body so the center of bouyancy will be much futher away from the main 
preasure body/can than if everything was pulled back in as far as it would 
go.

You'd retract everything to be as close to the body as possible for maximum 
manueverability and "spryness (cant' thing of another word) and extend 
everything for stability but less manueverability.

Yes?

George H. Slaterpryce III
www.bridgessoftware.com
www.captovis.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Cox" <ojaivalleybeefarm@dslextreme.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:16 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Opinions About Design


> 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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