[PSUBS-MAILIST] wireless control

[hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles]

Hi Alan,Thanks for the input, I have used servo's before and was worried that might be the only way.  The big issue really is the darn wire is quite stiff, maybe I should try to find a better cable first, mind you, the rc controllers are pretty nice to handle.  Hank 

    On Sunday, June 25, 2017 5:17 PM, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
 

 Hank,no you don't have to have an electrical degree from MIT but it willhelp if you know someone who does.If your control box has joy sticks on it with potentiometers that send out0-5Volts, you could chop off the signal wires or maybe just solder in wires to thisdevice.....http://www.astroflight.com/rcpwm2vIt takes the signal from a  radio control receiver & outputs it as a 0-5V signal.So you need a radio control transmitter & receiver with at least 4 channels &one of those units for each motor; providing the  voltage is compatible.The radio control transmitters are a bit difficult to set up if you are not familiarwith all the RC terms & would probably be better left to some nerdy kid!   Another way that it could be done is to fit similar valued potentiometers as you have on your joy stick, on to the signal wire. Then buy a servo ( thing that operatesthe aileron on a RC plane) & attach that on to the spindle of the potentiometer.The servo is plugged in to a channel on the RC receiver ( RC receiver needs 5 Volts),now when you operate the joy stick on your RC transmitter instead of movingthe aileron up & down it turns the potentiometer one way or the other, controllingforward & back & speed. You could have a switch incorporated to change from radio control to manual.I am not sure how the radio signals would work inside a metal hull, maybe buya RC to & try it out first! ( good excuse)A lot of modern motor controllers have a RC signal port. Jon was looking at a motorcontroller that had that facility, not sure if he bought it.Other than that, there is a lot happening in the robotics World with radio controlled battle bots etc; they are controlling a number of motors off RC. There may bevideos or advice on how to do it on their forums; however a lot of their controllersaren't capable of the voltage & amperage we use.Cheers Alan




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On 25/06/2017, at 12:10 AM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:


Hi All,Gamma has this stupid multi wire cable that goes from the electric panel to the hand control box.  The box has speed control for 4 motors and forward and reverse for the 4 motors.  Can I make that remote without an electrical engineering degree from MIT Hank

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