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Hahaha, you will be okComment
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I will try doing that later on. Now on the rudder light…. lights are too big…. Should I leave where it is, place it without fairing where it shoud be or not use a light?Comment
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Leave it as is and move on the real problems of getting this little beast operational.
Get anal on your next boat.
The object of this exercise is to get a working r/c submarine in the water. Stop futzing with the detail **** and just get the thing seaworthy. Too much attention to 'detail' leads to frustration and yet another abandoned project.
Don't become one of those incessant posters here who have yet to get an r/c submarine to work successfully in the water. There's at least one guy here who's been posting for over a decade asking questions and offering advice, yet has not (to the best of my knowledge) got anything working in the water. Don't be that guy!!!!!
FINISH IT!
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Will do Sir!Comment
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Ah, gotta love those "gentle" kick in the butt, inspirational, motivational, attitude adjusting talks.
I think that is why crawl, walk, run is drilled into my head along with "get the sub working".
If you can cut, drill, saw, hit things and swear a lot, you're well on the way to building a working model sub.Comment
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Make it simple, make strong, make it work!Comment
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Should you revisit the hard-to-install LED placement, you might consider routing an inexpensive fiber optic cable to the location, illuminated by a remote LED. The LED can be mounted somewhere convenient -even in the WTC.
Fibers have lots of useful applications in a hobby like this. I've used polished fibers with small lenses to couple light to a CCD video camera as well. That could be very cool placed in the sail cavity of the ship's whistle. The fiber works in the water and the camera electronics is stored within a sealed area - similar to our modern photonic masts.
For the LED application, the black, plastic jacket around the end of the fiber is removed, (similar to stripping insulation from a wire, only you don't want to nick the fiber since the light reflects off the interior) and the exposed end is bonded to a small hole drilled in the desired location. Instant running light!
For those who've fooled around with building electronic gadgets anytime in the last forty years, Forest Mims is the Godfather of DIY projects. He explains how to work with an LED source to drive photons through a 2.2mm fiber in this link: https://makezine.com/projects/how-to...s-and-sensors/
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Thanks so much! I will research it!Comment
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Installed an Emcotec DPSI Nano Magnet Switch which works thru the hull.Comment
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Lighting and 2.4Ghz Antenna completeComment
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