<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hank,</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">try googling "Fly out rov" or "tether management system" for some</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">ideas. Here is an example...</div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><a href="http://ac-cess.com/index.php/products/ac-rov-3000/ac-rov-3000-technical-specification">http://ac-cess.com/index.php/products/ac-rov-3000/ac-rov-3000-technical-specification</a></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Looks complicated. I would imagine there would be position feedback from</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">the cable drum motor, & a level wind like on a fishing real, as well as a constant</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">tension kept on the cable.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">I have thought about this as an alternative to a manipulator. You could put </div><div id="AppleMailSignature">cutters on a gripper so it could cut you free from any entanglement.</div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Alan<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On 7/11/2017, at 3:08 PM, hank pronk 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:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>Hi All,</div><div>I have been thinking about my next project to compliment Gamma and Elementary 3000. I am thinking about adding an ROV. I can mount an ROV garage to the front on the opposite side of the manipulator. The manipulator is close to completion, and I don't have much else to do. I can use the same rotary actuator motor type that I just built for the manipulator for thrusters. I have a real nice aluminum strobe light housing that can be used for the camera. I probably have most of the stuff here to build one. I might need some help with an umbilical cord though.</div><div>Hank</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><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></body></html>