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The Vehicle Frame The Thruster Assembly
The Control Box


The Control Box
Step 3

PURPOSE:
    To wire the button switches (vertical thrusters)
MATERIALS:
  • 2 button switches
  • Prepared control box
  • Solder

 

TOOLS:
  • Soldering iron
  • Vice


Figure 19D: Vertical thrusters with tether wire and power connections.
PROCEDURE:
  1. Refer to Figures 18 and 19 (next page) for instructions on wiring the switches
  2. Locate the (C, NO, NC) box above the wire terminals on each switch.
  3. Cut about 1" from both left over loose red (+) and black (-) wires. (Fig 19A)
  4. Solder the small red (+) wire between the two NC terminals. (Fig 19B)
  5. Solder the small black (-) wire between the two NO terminals. (Fig 19B)
  6. Take ONE red (+) wire splice from the power cable and solder it to one of the NC terminals. (Fig 19C)
  7. Take ONE black (-) wire splice from the power cable and solder it to the NO terminal on the same switch. (Fig 19C)
  8. Separate about 2" of the orange tether wire pair.
  9. Solder the orange (+) wire to the C terminal on ONE of the switches. (This switch will move the sea perch upward.) (Fig 19D)
  10. Solder the white (-) wire to the C terminal on the other switch. (This switch will move the sea perch downward.) (Fig 19D)

 

     
 
A. Vertical thruster interconnecting wires
  B. Connected vertical thrusters
 
C. Vertical thrusters with power cable connections   D. Vertical thrusters with power cable and tether connections

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