Beach gantry improvement ideas

UNH-OE / wave-tow-tank

Configuration files and issue tracking for the UNH wave & tow tank.

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Beach gantry improvement ideas #13

Closed petebachant closed 9 years ago

petebachant commented 9 years ago

Allow for single person operation, automation, etc.--vertical guides would be helpful here.
Motion control from the Tow Tank PC or a pendant would be ideal.
Get rid of the need to lower gantry jacks to reverse direction.
Add tracks for gantry wheels (angle sections with V-groove wheels, e.g. http://www.mcmaster.com/#2310t692/=ujhhj1)

petebachant commented 9 years ago

Re: Vertical guides

One of the main difficulties of lowering the beach is keeping it up against the back wall (x-direction). Presently, the gantry cables need to be angled a bit to "pull" the beach back. If there were some vertical guides (even simple angle/channel on the walls with tubing attached to the beach), the x-location would be constant.

petebachant commented 9 years ago

Closing since some of these were implemented.