Now that people are using more and more Sonars on their ArduCopters we have seen a lot of different reports on behavior of sonars when they are close to main electronics. Also there has been mounts made from plastic spoons and knives.. We decided to make a bit more elegant mount for it.
Mount can be mounted on which ever arm and it can hold both LV and XL Maxbotix Sonars. It is made from PolyCarbonate so it dampens vibrations automatically.
It needs minor finetuning and after that it will be put on store. All earlier mounts still stay on store as they work great too, this is for users who want/need to move sonars out from main frame.
Same mount from bottom view.
Mount places Sonar as far as possible from the main electronics and also motors/propellers and this way provides best most silent area for it to work.
This mount can be used on Tris, Quads, Hexas.
Will the final mount look like this... We shall see :)
Comments
@Dany, ahead already.. It's being done already. This is just one model and still needs minor finetuning
@Ramon, As you might see from top picture, battery leads etc are facing backwards and counter measuring that. But as whole mount and sonar is so lightweighted.. It does not matter so much anyways. And just like Sebastian proposed, in fixedwing airplanes final CG is usually adjusted by moving battery few millimeters forth/backwards.
And there are similar mount coming for optical flow sensors.
Ramon: just move the battery a few millimeters ;)
Jani,
you should create a full arc that link 2 arms (for quad) that way installing 4 of them would add to the stiffness of the overall arms...
but this looks good...
Now I definitely gonna purchase a sonar with a mount!
very nice indeed!