. Bill Bibeault Bronco Type XXIII Build

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Tom

you stated that

"Spotlights can work against you. This video is me just holding the 808 camera (in a case I made) by hand and guessing the pan rate.

Going back to spotlights, what they can do is reflect off of all the tiny bits in the water, scattering the light, and making it even harder to see."
When I was Scuba diving I had to have spot light to take any photos.
What is the differences ? Mine was right on top of the camera case,
Bill

Your photo taking was of objects not at all far from lens. An underwater camera, with a long distance between subject and lens there is much more suspended matter in the water to block/attenuate the quality of the image captured by the camera.

In my navy diving days I was the go-to guy with the Nikon's and video gear. In awful harbor water (with the opacity and purity of an unflushed bus-station toilet) I got good shots (prairie-masker belts, and dinged propeller blades), but only by careful lens selection, off-set flash, and getting the lens right on top of the work. And burning up a lot of film by bracketing each shot.

The longer the distance between camera and the work, the more ****ty the resolution.

And that's another reason combatant submarines don't have windows.

David

[cgbillb]

David
You stated that channel 5 would be for ballast, did you mean that the Pump and the Vent via a two plug go to channel 5 one button for the Vent and one button for the pump?
I got this from the Caswell site under SAS Sub-Driver, just want to make sure I under stand it right took photo but my cell has lost internet for some reason
Are the Vent and the pump call the Ballast system?
Bill

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

David
You stated that channel 5 would be for ballast, did you mean that the Pump and the Vent via a two plug go to channel 5 one button for the Vent and one button for the pump?
I got this from the Caswell site under SAS Sub-Driver, just want to make sure I under stand it right took photo but my cell has lost internet for some reason
Are the Vent and the pump call the Ballast system?
Bill

Yes, a Y-lead is used to run the ballast servo and LPB (through it's MPC) in parallel. The input side of the lead makes up to the fail-safe (BLM) output.

Yeah, let's see a picture of your wiring when you can get that phone-camera to work.

David

[cgbillb]

Used my iPad this is what I have on channel 5 Vent and pump

[cgbillb]

David
OK thanks on the lights on cameras and I always wonder why sub did not have window's. thanks again
Bill

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Tom

you stated that

"Spotlights can work against you. This video is me just holding the 808 camera (in a case I made) by hand and guessing the pan rate.

Going back to spotlights, what they can do is reflect off of all the tiny bits in the water, scattering the light, and making it even harder to see."
When I was Scuba diving I had to have spot light to take any photos.
What is the differences ? Mine was right on top of the camera case,
Bill

You SCUBA dive as well? I like you more and more Bill. I am not sure if you were sport or professional diver, I am sport. I think David mentioned about offsetting the light source from the camera. The ocean is wonderfully clear where most sport divers go.....Keys, Hawaii, Bahamas, etc. (and even those places get murky when a storm just passed through). A flash used in the ocean many times was to restore some color filtered out by the depth (bring out the red spectrum). Anyways most ponds/lakes suffer from algae growth and particulate floating around (i.e. silt). Having lights close to either side of the camera, in my experiments, reflect back to the camera. I have some video taken that can show this, if I did not delete it (looking at green screen is not exciting LOL) Now Lake Tahoe is rated one of the clearest waters in the world.....that would be fun to take underwater images.....Hmmmm gotta think about that. Maybe next summer road trip! The Canadians have taken some wonderful images in the northern lakes (in fact I believe there is a clip in David's youtube about R/C Submarines).
All that to say....give it a try AFTER you built this sub and have it running!

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Used my iPad this is what I have on channel 5 Vent and pump

You got the right idea there, Bill. With the three-position switch in 'neutral' the ballast servo remains in neutral and the vent valve is closed, and the LPB does not run. With the button at the top depressed the servo goes hard over but the vent valve remains closed, and the LPB runs. With the lower button pushed the servo drives the vent valve open, and the LBP does not run. If need be, reverse the ch-5 servo direction to get the desired sequence of operation from the buttons.

Set the ch-5 endpoints like so: Vent -- 100% servo travel. Blow -- 40% servo travel.

I see you don't have a fail-safe between the receiver and Y-lead. Before this thing operated the Type-23 make sure you install such a device and set it up properly.

David

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

…..….… And get some heat-shrink around that receiver before you shuffle your feet on the carpet, touch the bare side of the board, and blast those chips to smithereens!

You people!

David

[cgbillb]

Tom
Yes your right no lights, no camera just out of the box
I don't dive anymore at 78 guess my diving days are done, but I will love to dive on the U-2513 in the keys before I leave this earth.
I was both sport and USCG and US Army
Did you see my last photo did I do the vent and pump right?
Bill

[cgbillb]

David
Thanks I will do that all that
Bill

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The micro Failsafe is a must in any nitro/petrol RC model to protect the model from damage should you lose the signal from your transmitter due to low transmitter batteries or going out of transmitter range. The micro Failsafe also protects the model from a flat receiver battery.

The micro Failsafe can be programmed to activate at a selectable reciever battery low voltage and can also be programmed to tell the servos to go to a certain position should the failsafe activate.

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[cgbillb]

David
Will this work only $10
Bill

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Use this, Bill:

https://www.rc-submarine.com/product-page/blm-battery-link-monitor

The battery link monitor not only provides the fail-safe function for loss of signal, it will also fail-safe the boat if the battery drops below the critical voltage. A must have feature on any vehicle using Lithium polymer batteries.

David

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Tom
Yes your right no lights, no camera just out of the box
I don't dive anymore at 78 guess my diving days are done, but I will love to dive on the U-2513 in the keys before I leave this earth.
I was both sport and USCG and US Army
Did you see my last photo did I do the vent and pump right?
Bill

Looks good Bill.

[cgbillb]

Tom and David thanks for all the help om my U-2326 build