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Ron, I'm curious to see how the vertical thruster works as well. I can tell you that when we place objects (like hands) an inch or two in front of the thruster it makes almost no difference in the amount of thrust. For gentle maneuvering I think you'll be fine. For heavy lifting it might be a proble...

Steve - Very nice! It's great to see some confirmation of our numbers on a different test rig. Thanks for doing that.

-Rusty
Blue Robotics

Steve,

Great! Glad to hear that you like it. I'd love to hear about the rest of your testing. We have a few performance plots on our website, also attached here. It would be great to have some of the data points validated on a different test rig.

Best,

Rusty

Hey Steve, Thanks for posting this! If you still have your test rig set up, I would really like to know what the voltage is from the battery when the thruster is at full throttle. Sounds like you might be getting a pretty large voltage drop at the battery or through the cable to the ESC. The thruste...

Hello everyone! Thank you for the kind words. We are very excited to be past our goal but we still have a lot of time left! @scubersteve - Thanks. Our nozzle design is based on a Kort 19 profile, like most thruster nozzles. We used it because of its commonality and the fact that it handles forward a...

Hello everyone, This is Rusty from BlueRobotics. Thanks for posting our thruster here and for your support! If you have any questions about it I would be happy to help out. We've put a lot of time into the product and we hope that it will enable communities like this one to build better and more cap...