Dean,
Many times I have thought of this as well...(Why not use small shots of air fore and aft for trim?)...seems simple enough...... But, the MBT's are ambient......
The problem is the dynamic nature of the bubbles with depth changes. Here you have the vents closed to keep the the bubbles where you want them and that's where the trouble starts. Start to change depth significantly, and so change the size of these bubbles...larger (ascending) smaller (descending)....there so there goes your fine trim and control.
It's best for these types of trim systems to be hardened.
Joe
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To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] K350 Parts
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:03:57 EST
I have read many posts discussing secondary btfor fine neutral control.My question is can't the mbts be used for this?It seems to me it could be done by using a simplemethod.my thoughts are to put 2 inline control valves on thehp air line. the valve closest to the mbts would be leftopen and the 2nd one would operate normally. Thenwhen fine control is needed, you would close the frontvalve, open the back valve then close it. This would allowa small amout of hp air to be delivered giving fine tuning.the same could be done on the air release side.The amount of control would be the volume between the twovalves.So am I ignorant again? am I missing somthing here?just a planning awayDean Ackman