S.S.S. Picture

[Greg]

Here is a pic of our fish. Made from Dan's concept. Using with paper graph for now, still working on coming up with hardware and software to run it more efficiently.

[Charles, Oak Island, NC]

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looks great !! How is she doing ? can you flatbed any of the graph and post it ?

[Greg]

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Thanks Charles,

The fish does work very well.

It's still on the roll in the machine and the roll is not finished yet. Will do later though.

Anybody else got a picture they can post of there system and perhaps share some ideas???

Lets see some other designs...

Happy Day, Greg

[Charles, Oak Island, NC]

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Greg what are the dimensions of your fish ? What method did you use to secure the transducers in place. Are you using a foward (to the cable) weight to keep it down ?

[Greg]

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Charles, The fish is about 5ft long X 4 1/2 inch. The holes for the transducers were machined slightly oversized and then an o-ring grove was cut in as well. The transducers are then installed using a silicone sealer for extra water resistance. Everything inside the fish is sealed and dry.

I don't understand a ""forward (to the cable)""

See if this answers it: The nose cone is machined cole-rolled steel. It also acts as a rock crusher, lol. It too is o-ringed. It weights about 17#s by it's self. It is used as balance weight. The cable rail has several mounting locations. By this you can control or pre-set the attitude of the fish traveling in the water, nose up, nose down, or leval path depending on the particular need at the time.

A faster towing speed would require more nose down attitude to provide a leval view from the transducers at speed.

I had sat on the bottom of the lake for many hours while watching the fish go by for testing and figuring this stuff out leval paths of flight.

I hope this helps you out or at least helps someone.

Happy to help, Greg

[Charles, Oak Island, NC]

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Greg,
you answered them all. Great job.
thanks