Leaks and failures

The end of June has been rough for SubjuGator 7. Our new pneumatic actuator box managed to form a small leak through our potting material (resulting in ~1cm of water in the box, but no catastrophic electrical failures) and we have now had two Seabotix thrusters completely seize this year (with <12 months use, not surprising given past track records with this brand). Pending replacement cables and potting for the pneumatic housing and the arrival of one additional new thruster, we expect to be
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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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