<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:14pt"><br><div><span>Steve,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I've briefly looked at this issue for myself down the road.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica
Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Hyperdrive, </span><span><a href="http://www.hypershop.com/HyperDrive/iUSBport/">http://www.hypershop.com/HyperDrive/iUSBport/</a> makes a wireless USB port device for iPad, I have one. Perhaps that would make the tablet interface doable.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>If PC is a must, Panasonic Tough-book is reduced scale, and both shock and water resistant. It's the laptop of choice for EMS personnel. It is pricey as a result. Perhaps it
can be sourced from a guy named "Bear" at the local pawn shop?! :)<br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18.6667px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Joe<br></span></div><div style="display: block;" class="yahoo_quoted"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, February 1, 2014 8:54 AM, Steve McQueen <psub101@indy.rr.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div>
<div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv9823278387"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Alec, yes. I agree. My initial approach is basic old school. The tech support guys at Teledyne are very helpful and I'm sure it has been done before. Good feedback ( I wasn't sure that email made it to the thread).<br clear="none">
</div>Thanks.<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv9823278387gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv9823278387gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:03 PM, Private <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:alecsmyth@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:alecsmyth@gmail.com">alecsmyth@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="yiv9823278387gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="yiv9823278387yqt1563377089" id="yiv9823278387yqt95283"><div><div>Hi Steve,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I find a laptop hard to imagine in a 250 just due to space constraints. I think the first thing I'd look at is whether one could interface the sonar to a tablet instead. Note that an iPad, for instance, has a 12 hour battery so you would save space, amps, and money by getting rid of the DC-AC converter.</div>
<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Best,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Alec<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div><div class="yiv9823278387h5"><div><br clear="none">On Jan 31, 2014, at 8:19 PM, Steve McQueen <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:psub101@indy.rr.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:psub101@indy.rr.com">psub101@indy.rr.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
<br clear="none"></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>All, thought I would share an
exercise I am noodling through. As an off shoot to developing my K-250
electrical layout I am looking at what it would take to add (later) a
sonar system based on a 12V DC system. Thought I could get some
feedback as well as provide an "example" for others considering a
similar scenario.<br clear="none">
<br clear="none"></div>On the Psubs site under Submitter/Steve McQueen/K-250 Sonar Electrical you can find my initial version of a wiring diagram.
In this example I used easily found components as a base reference.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>My current self inflicted design constraints:<br clear="none"></div>
</div>Implementation of the Teledyne BlueView M-900 2D imaging sonar <br clear="none"></div>Utilization of laptop for viewing (vs. separate processor with remote monitor)<br clear="none">Dedicated 12V DC sourced (separate from main 12V DC bank)<br clear="none">
</div>4 hours of run time<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>I am sure my initial design can
be made more efficient. The initial design has 2 parallel 12V/150 Ah
batteries which are larger and heavier than I'd like (22x4x11 inches or
560x110x280 mm and 89.3 lbs or 40.5 kg). This design gives 3.9 hrs of
run time <br clear="none">
<br clear="none">For me the design goal is to reduce battery footprint (size/weight)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Any comments? Anyone have sonar based on 12V DC?<div><div><img></div>
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