[PSUBS-MAILIST] Motor Controller Tractor Beam

[Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles]

 Alan, currently planning to run wires since it's easiest to implement.  Phase-2 will involve wireless in a similar fashion to what you have pictured.  So you've got that joystick with the button on top, tell me about the quality...it's ok?  What size pots are on it?  Can you take a photo with your hand on it so I can get some perspective to it's overall size?  
Jon
    On Friday, July 19, 2019, 05:26:41 PM EDT, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:  
 
 Jon,are you intending to run it wireless?Have you thought about a 2.4ghz RC transmitter?There are mounts available for attaching screens to them.I had my ambient running off a ps2 controller, which has a similar joy stickconfiguration to a RC transmitter & it was quite intuitive.The Vesc motor controller that I keep going on about, comes in variousflavours with some 100 amp controllers available. You can wire a joystick to them easy enough. Below I have hacked a "servo tester" by wiring the pot onmy joystick to the contacts on it's pot so it is now converting analog to a 2.4ghzsignal to the Vesc. I will be doing a lot of testing of my Vescs in August & September in pool & on a boat.Alan

On 20/07/2019, at 12:01 AM, Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:


 Alan, I like the idea of a larger joystick in most situations.  In my case I'm trying to combine separate thumb-sticks (for vertical/horizontal movement) with a 7-inch graphical display all of which is hand held so I can control the sub whether sitting in the CT or prone looking out the front.
The programmable controllers offer a lot of configuration options and performance feedback, but are expensive.  I paid $265(US) six years ago but today the new versions are $500(US).  I think my replacements are going to be traditional Minn Kota controllers with a Raspberry PI interface to provide tractor steering.
Jon

_______________________________________________
Personal_Submersibles mailing list
Personal_Submersibles at psubs.org
http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles

_______________________________________________
Personal_Submersibles mailing list
Personal_Submersibles at psubs.org
http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles
  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.whoweb.com/pipermail/personal_submersibles/attachments/20190721/7a87ddee/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image1.JPG
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 1852655 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://www.whoweb.com/pipermail/personal_submersibles/attachments/20190721/7a87ddee/attachment-0001.jpe>