Hi Guys,
No lake testing this weekend, but progress is still being made, been doing some CAD work on the vapor tank as at the moment I am having an issue with vapor coming back through the fan, the fan becomes saturated and refuses to work, it is also proving difficult to efficiently move the vapor along the tubes and out of the exhaust ports, so I am going to try relocating the fans, as well as doubling up for more positive airflow.
I have also been working on the LED refit of the entire boat, most of which is straightforward enough, remove old GOW bulbs and swop in LED replacements, in some instances however, a little more thought is required to achieve the end result I desire, the deck flood lights for instance, these are white metal castings in the original kit, I am retro-fitting 1.8mm LEDs into them, unfortunately, in order to get the bulb to sit properly, the legs need to pass through the body of the light.
Now this is an issue, as white metal, as it's name suggests, is made of metal, metal being conductive causes some issues with electricity, now I could paint / lacquer the legs of the LEDs, but this didn't really look all that neat and I was after a resolution with a bit of finesse, so I opted to model the light in CAD and reproduce them in black resin on my Formlabs SLA printer.. having toys is awesome
The black resin is great, non-conductive, the lights need to be black anyway and I can make them so that the LED just drops into the new custom body, the photo is a comparison between the original and white metal lights and a first try SLA version, I have since tweaked the dimensions and re-printed a set.
More to come soon
Alex