[PSUBS-MAILIST] CruzPro ATU120BT Technical Report on Pressure test to 1, 200 fsw

[Steve McQueen via Personal_Submersibles]

Good job. Thanks.
Steve

On Wed, May 5, 2021, 5:06 PM Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> Psubbers,
>
> For the past few weeks Cliff Redus, Alan James, and myself have had
> discussions about Depth Sounding transducers that can interface into a PLC
> or a consumer grade microprocessor such as Arduino for Rpi.  There are two
> major purposes for having a sounding device, the first being it provides an
> opportunity to survey a dive site and confirm the water column is not
> greater than the capability of the submarine; the second is it provides
> altitude above bottom which is valuable information when diving at night or
> in low visibility waters.
>
> Our goal was to see if we could find an off-the-shelf transducer with a
> sounding range of 1000 feet from the surface as well as surviving to a
> submerged depth of 1000 feet.  We did find a transducer that met those
> specifications and Cliff performed extremely valuable controlled testing on
> the transducer to 533 psi or the equivalent of 1200 feet sea water.  These
> tests were successful and Cliff has prepared a detailed report of the
> project, the pressure testing, and the field testing that was involved.
>
> You can download and read the detailed report at
> http://www.psubs.org/community/projects/cruzpro/cruzpro.pdf
>
> or follow this path at the website
> PSUBS -> PSUBS Community -> Community Projects -> CruzPro Depth Sounding
> Transducer
>
> Special thanks to Cliff Redus for testing work involved with this project.
>
> Discussion welcome...
>
> Jon
>
> _______________________________________________
> Personal_Submersibles mailing list
> Personal_Submersibles at psubs.org
> http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.whoweb.com/pipermail/personal_submersibles/attachments/20210507/824cf927/attachment.html>