<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><DIV>Rick , Here's a shot of the boys posing on Esmae a few days ago. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brian<BR><BR>--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:<BR><BR>From: Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><BR>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] motor pod testing<BR>Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 17:23:19 +0000<BR><BR></DIV><DIV>I was thinking that they were the Minn-Kota size rigs. Do you have a picture of what your thrusters look like on your projects page?</DIV><DIV>Rick </DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 8:01 PM Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><DIV style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><DIV>Alan, Rick, Yes , no load but some load just due to the work of turning the shaft and some of the oil resistance. I still want to throw an amp meter on each of the motors so I can balance the output to each. Rick, not a lot of expansion when you consider how much oil I have in the pods ! I have close to 8 gallons per pod ! Yes I know it's a lot but just as well, more heat dissipation and contaminants will likely fall to the bottom of the pod. </DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brian</DIV><DIV> <BR><BR>--- <A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A> wrote:<BR><BR>From: Alan via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>><BR>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>><BR>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] motor pod testing<BR>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 16:29:40 +1200<BR><BR></DIV></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><DIV>Hi Brian,</DIV><DIV>you should get a lot more cooling in the water. When testing my lights, they</DIV><DIV>heated to the point where you could only touch them for a few seconds</DIV><DIV>after 5 minutes but stayed warm for an hour in water.</DIV><DIV>You were testing with no load on the thruster. It will heat up quite a bit</DIV><DIV>quicker with a load on. </DIV><DIV>Cheers Alan<BR><BR>Sent from my iPad</DIV><DIV><BR>On 3/04/2018, at 2:52 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><DIV>Hi All , Tested my motor pods today for about an hour at about 3/4 maximum speed. Had about 8 feet of 1/2" vinyl tubing coming from the top of the motors going straight up into the air and hanging from my overhead I beams. Had the vinyl tubing connected to small inner tubes that had the air evacuated out of them. It was a cool day ( overcast, 60 degrees) . I ran the motors for over an hour, by the end of the hour the wd40 had climbed the whole 8 feet of tubing to the base of the inner tube. The motor pods were warm. If the sub had been in the water I don't think I would have had as much expansion of the oil. So I think that is going to work pretty good. Gives me a chance to run the batteries down significantly to see how my battery charger works with drained batteries, and how long it takes to bring them back up.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Brian</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><SPAN>_______________________________________________</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Personal_Submersibles mailing list</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN><A href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</A></SPAN><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>_______________________________________________
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