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Hi Jon. Thanks for the thoughts. Dan gave me some good advice also. The
electric actuators I'm looking at have 50 pounds of push. With those things, the
faster they travel, the less push they have. It has to do with motor gearing.
I'm pretty sure that will be enough push to move them, and these use just 5 amps
to operate.
I see what you mean by knowing if the dive planes are
equal in angle. I'll need to have position sensors ( they come with them )
hooked up. Ideally, I think I'll be adding the side windows to the sub so I can
see the dive plane/thrusters. I have the materials for two 16 inch windows and
will add them after I drive the sub around a while. With the dome hatch, the
guys can see all around, but with just the three windows I have now, forward and
down is all I can see. Definitely need the side windows, plus I'll be able to
see if anything like seaweed gets hooked on the side motors. I'd like to add
some dive planes at the back too, and those would be hooked in tandem, but I
think I see a need for having the side dive planes able to move independantly.
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