
While the filling and sanding continues behind the scenes I decided to shift some attention to the power supply box, also because I had a spark on inspiration on how to properly design it. The power supply will be completely redone in the new hull and the power supply box seems like a good place to start working on that. The middle row will be fully - connections for ease of connecting, the remaining connectors will be divided along 5 fuses, since the first of 6 fuses is used as a main fuse to the last 3 fuses. From this point I will run wiring throughout the boat, adding the same kind of connectors at tactical connection point in the hull.

I started applying a colour coding for the connections.

The power supply box got quite big, this is in part because it provides much more room for proper wiring and the Pi also becomes much more accessible for maintenance. I do need to find a place for the battery status display which I almost forgot about.

The new power supply box fits well, though it will end up on the bottom rather then on the old box.

I started getting a feeling that it might proof difficult to pace winches inside the drilling tower so I spent like 5 minutes in FreeCAD so I could see whether it actually will be a problem or not.

There is now better way of determining whether or not something will fit then to make it and try it out, so I did. I will use 3mm styrene sheet for basic construction of the tower (2 aluminium angle bars will provide more strength) so I won't have issues with a bending tower when all winches are lifting whatever load I may come across. At the moment the 3D printer is printing the second of 5 winches.

Both bottoms (1 will be fitted to the island, the other will be glued inside the PVC pipe that will make the lighthouse), the 2 plateaus, the roof and the mounting plate for the WiFi router. The mounting plate for the router has an additional hole for the wiring of the lighting in the top of the lighthouse.

The joysticks are now ready to be placed permanently, though I need to be careful not to forget placing the magnets otherwise there will be no angles indicated.

I finished the wiring, now I need to place the remaining 2 screens.

The right joystick is mirrored for convenience in use. Now it all comes down to detailing!

Booting the transmitters goes quite well. Today I added a battery status display so I'll know when to shut the transmitter down.
Greetings Josse