Project 8 : Racing Yacht Sail Control System

You are a team of engineers designed to develop a sail control system for a racing yacht. This system is designed to ensure the optimum sail settings for given weather conditions. Thus the position of the wind relative to the desired sailing direction will determine the positioning of the sail while the wind strength and the loading of the mast will determine the amount of sail put out as excessive sail in strong winds can lead to snapped masts.

Sunday, 5 December 2010

Wind Sensors - Powering and Suitibility

Powering

From what I have seen on existing control systems, the above sensors do not require individual powering. The power source required by the sensors is delivered from the CPU, which is about 12/24 V. I’ve seen some highly sophisticated control systems with more sensors set up like this so it should be okay…. I think

Suitability

The sensors highlighted above are in wide use at the moment, and have been tried and tested over a number of times. As these are currently used by the professionals then if it’s good enough for them then it’s good enough for us!

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