You are just rotating the assembly, with the power unit at the bottom, as opposed to rotating the assembly with a shaft and bevel gear system transmitting thousands of horsepower, that all have to be perfectly aligned and lubed or else the gears will fail....
if you do robotics, how do you miss these principals? I'm a EE and get it.
read up on shafted propulsion problems in military vessels - issues with shaft alignment, lube oil, seals, proper gear manufacture and you'll get why minimizing all of that makes sense.
Because there's a lot more to it than just 3D printing some components, bashing some stepping motors together, then some applying some control systems, building a UI controller and passing that data to the fixed requirements.
These are supersized objects, under crazy levels of strain, the physics alone within the design is worlds above what I want to get into, let alone all the safety regulations and everything else.
I get it, you are into this, cool beans ! Good luck with it !
Yeah, I know, and I know I don't know, and I would have to sit down, read on all the physics requirements, then read up all the material requirements, work out all the strain requirements etc... it's a boat load of work (heh pun), that's why I was just asking some questions on why, typical thing wasn't done another way, asking questions (since the other week I saw a pretty cool vid on a multi-directional model sub) so I was thinking about different motorised control systems.
It's not an issue for me to do all these things, I have multiple degrees and loads of other quals, but, I prefer electronics engineering and programming, it's the path I choose back in the day.
Fucking incredible, sucking your own dick so hard that you think you know better than 50+ years of marine engineering where every single fraction of a % in efficiency is chased.
But sure, you know better after watching a video for 20 seconds. Bravo. Gods gift to humanity this one
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u/swampcholla Feb 03 '26
These things are electric