<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Brian,</div><div>We discussed this a few years back, & I can remember Vance making </div><div>some negative comments about the system, saying that on the slightest</div><div>interruption to the power the ballast would drop.</div><div>It may be that because the subs mentioned, are going so deep,</div><div>there are very few other alternatives.</div><div>I have a stack of magnets for fire safety doors, that keep doors open</div><div>& release them to close in event of fire. They don't seem to draw much</div><div>in the way of amps, from memory.</div><div>Of course you would have to epoxy them or something, & they would loose</div><div>a bit of power with the bigger gap caused by the insulation.</div><div>You would need a manual system to hold them in while transporting &</div><div>when the power was off for storage. </div><div>A big plus would be the instantaneous response in an emergency, but</div><div>you could get that other ways.</div><div>Alan</div><div><br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 18/09/2016, at 7:59 am, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><div>I wonder how many watts those electromagnets take? I could do some tests to see what it would take to hold back the pressure of the shot.</div><div> </div><div>Brian<br><br>--- <a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a> wrote:<br><br>From: via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a><br>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Drop weight design<br>Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 15:12:10 -0400<br><br></div><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><div>Oops, that would be Nautile, the French sub.
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<div><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">The French didn't have anything to do with Trieste except for escort duty. It was built in Italy (in Trieste, don't you know) and belonged to Auguste Picard, who was Swiss. Then the US Navy. And yes, steel shot was used on all the bathyscaphs, including the French one, which was built later and called Archimede. And a few others, as well (like Nalutile). All of them had some variation of a ring electromagnet at the throat which served as a valve.
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<div dir="ltr">Actually they used steel shot rather than lead, and the flow was started or stopped via an electromagnet. A benefit of this was that you could easily shed increments of weight, and another was that if you lost power, the sub would drop it's ballast automatically (i.e. fail-safe).
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<div>On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 8:48 AM, Jens Laland via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<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;">Gentlemen,<br>
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If I'm not wrong, I think the French used a whole lot of off-the-shelf<br>
lead balls (as used in shotguns) in two individual pellet ballast<br>
hoppers when they operated the "Trieste" back in the 50's, ref<br>
<a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Trieste_nh96807.svg">https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Trieste_nh96807.svg</a><br>
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Jens Laland<br>
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