<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div class="" style=""><span class="" style="">Hi Scott,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">If you Google "arm 5 E manipulator" you will come across a pdf on</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">an electric underwater manipulator. I saw one demonstrated at UI.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">It didn't respond to a command & took a chunk out of its bench.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">I think the shallow depth models don't have oil compensation,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">but the deeper ones do. Cliff can tell you about the pitfalls of oil</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,
'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">compensating those little motors. </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">They probably are compensating the whole actuactor which means </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">that as the piston retracts the oil in the body is displaced & has to </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica
Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">move out in to a compensating device. I think I heard they maintain</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">an internal pressure of 4psi above ambient.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">So a lot of mucking about.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif;
font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">Below is a site link with a number of hydraulic manipulators & attached diagrams,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span class="" style="">which may give you a bit of visual information on how they are put together.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;" class=""><span style="background-color: transparent;">There are also robot arm calculators you can use that start with the weight you</span><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.333333969116211px; font-family:
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Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="" style=""> <hr size="1" class="" style=""> <font size="2" face="Arial" class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight:bold;" class="">From:</span></b> swaters via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">To:</span></b> personal_submersibles@psubs.org <br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, May 29, 2014 1:31 PM<br class="" style=""> <b class="" style=""><span style="font-weight: bold;" class="">Subject:</span></b> [PSUBS-MAILIST] Manipulator arm<br class="" style=""> </font> </div> <div class="" style=""><br class=""
style=""><div id="yiv3324499401" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div class="" style="">Hey guys. I am still working on the manipulator arm project for the K boats. I am a little overwhelmed as to what direction to head. I really don't know where to start because of my lack of knolwedge. Does anyone have any pointers as to where to start? I am thinking about using electric motors rather than hydrolics just because of the amount of external operating peices. </div><div class="" style="">Thanks,</div><div class="" style="">Scott Waters</div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><div style="font-size:75%;color:#575757;" class="">Sent from my U.S. Cellular© Smartphone</div></div> </div></div><br class=""
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