Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Battery Box Help

[Dennis Line <neptune769@gt.rr.com>]

Donald M. Rosencrantz wrote:

>  Without even seeing your drawing, I'm wondering if you have considered pressure compensating the batteries using oil.  Certainly, this can make maintenance and charging aspects more complex. On the other hand it could simplify a lot of other aspects of your design, and keep overall weight to a minimum.
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No I haven't considered pressure compensating it with oil. I think that 
would cause me more headaches than I would want.

>  Your 150 psi max pressure implies that you are going to 300 feet depth.  Sounds awfully deep for an ambient sub.  Or is that 150 psi to give a safety factor of 2?
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Yes it is a safety factor of 2.

>  I can't remember what drawing program produces files in a .dwg format.  What drawing program did you use?  
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The program is Autocad that I use at work. I can also save as dxf.

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>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: "Dennis Line" <neptune769@gt.rr.com>
>  To: "Psubs" <Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org>
>  Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:53 AM
>  Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Battery Box Help
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>  I was hoping there is someone on the list that could help me out. I am 
>  trying to design a battery box. I'm not an Engineer so I'm not sure if a 
>  design I have would stand up to an external pressure of 150 psi max. 
>  This will be placed into an ambient sub. I have the box drawn as a 3 
>  view. The file format is .dwg. What I'm trying to come up with is a box 
>  to hold 4 type 27 batteries in as small a package as possible. If you 
>  can help I would greatly appreciate it. Just let me know and I will send 
>  you the file.
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>  Regards,
>  Dennis
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