Competition day 1 recap from the Transdec

Day one at the Transdec in San Diego was a great success for Team SubjuGator. Our morning started at 6:30am. We quickly packed the pelican cases with the items necessary to run the sub all day. This turned out to be 2 medium pelicans and two small pelicans. Luckily, the sub (on its cart) and the four pelican cases fit perfectly inside our two Suburbans (thanks Dr. Schwartz). We arrived at the Transdec at 7:20am and began to setup our tent. Our new awesome SubjuGator banner stood out among all of
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Thruster Calibrations

The team has been busy debugging the new motor drivers and we recently began calibrating each of our new thrusters. The motor drivers are running great, and survived our stress tests flawlessly. And better yet, we’re doing all of our communication over ethernet. Here’s a photo of our calibration rig during one of the data logging runs for a SeaBotix thruster. Here is a photo of the calibration rig calibrating a VideoRay thruster.
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