Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] testing continues

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:48 AM, <Recon1st@aol.com> wrote:

Well I got to the water again. What a ride this has been. Everything going smooth

nice and as expected, then oops.

This outing I had planned on neutral buoyancy, and balance. Then some shallow dives

under power with positive buoyancy. Test the under water com systems, basic handling and just all around fun day.

First my poor old surface boat has another problem. I may have broke a wrist pin

in the starboard engine. Looks like she is going to have to come out of the water.

Well that just means no open water testing darn. Put RECON 1 in the water and put her

on the bottom. To light in the bow. Neutral is good can put up with it. Motor over to the

my slip and do the com testing. Can't get it to work. Seems like the support boat set is

working but can not hear anything on the sub. Sorry David have to go thru the wiring again.

Well so we are going out of the harbor to play in a little deeper water. On the way out of the

harbor lose all power to main propulsion everything else is fine. Ooops my poor little fish

boat had to tow me back to the lift and retire for the day.

Such is the life of a submadman.

I did however confirm my overall speed is what I was trying to get, and that my control

surfaces are working well. Very good slow speed and quick reaction times. My bow seems

to work on the surface and can handle some wave action with out too much lift under higher

speed. She runs straight and true with hands of controls. Was surprised that my horizontal

thruster had basically no affect under speed, but was pleased to see it will turn on it's axes .

Was planning on a bunch of video but as the day was cut short, do not have much. I will try

to put some together and post it. Just have to figure out how to run this camera. O yeah and

I did launch my cute little float, and it works fine.

One of the main things I have learned so far is the second sub will be a lot easier than the first.

Dean