Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] oils for pressure compensating

["Captain Nemo" <vulcania@hawaii.rr.com>]

Cool!  Another one for the Favorites File.  Thanks Sean!

Pat


----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean T. Stevenson" <sts@telus.net>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 12:52 PM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] oils for pressure compensating


> I have used the following oils in transformer boxes on a few ROV projects:
>
> http://www.imperialoil.com/pds/voltesso.htm
>
> These are intended primarily as static application electrical insulating
oils,
> but the viscosity may be low enough to use to pressure compensate an
electric
> motor - I've never done this myself.  This same oil is used in electrical
juction
> boxes, but clear mineral oil is sometimes used here, too.  As I recall,
the
> mineral oil was used wherever we had fiber optic terminations (probably
because
> of refractive index?).
>
> -Sean
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