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Science Mission Requirements for UNOLS Wires & Cables

What kind of wire or cable do you need?

Please help us define the science mission requirements for the

UNOLS Standard Wires and Cables of the future.

Goals and Objectives for this effort are listed on the following page:

http://www.unols.org/publications/reports/wire/wirespec.html

IDENTIFICATION

 First Name:  Last Name:
 Institution:   Phone:
 Email:  Fax:
 May we contact you to follow up? Yes No

Provide a summary of your wire and/or cable requirements now and in the future that should be considered during the process of defining specifications for standard wires and cables. Especially important are operations where you are limited by existing wires or new operations, sampling methods and survey methods that would not be possible with existing wires. Tell us about things you would like to be able to do that cannot be done now using standard UNOLS wires and cables. Please fill out at least this part of the form to help define the wire and cables of the future. The second part of this form allows you to submit more detailed information if you prefer.

 

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Please complete the following form for each piece of sampling, survey or other project equipment that you currently use or plan to use in the future. Especially important is information on equipment that may stress the capabilities of existing UNOLS wires and cables or that may not be possible to deploy with existing standard wires and cables. Are there tasks that you can visualize that are not now being attacked because of a lack of appropriate wire capabilities? Information regarding work done with standard packages usually provided by UNOLS ship operators is not necessary, however if you are not sure, we would welcome any input. If you have more than one system, you can skip some of the repetitive information in the identification section and just fill in your name and email address on subsequent submissions so we can correlate all of your responses.

OUR PRIMARY GOAL IS TO CLEARLY IDENTIFY OPERATIONS (CURRENT AND FUTURE) THAT WOULD BE LIMITED BY OR NOT POSSIBLE WITH EXISTING WIRES AND CABLES.

RESEARCH

Science Discipline: Funding Sources: NSF ONR/Navy NOAA
Other Federal State Private

Brief Description of Research Interests:

Comments regarding your operations:

Contact for Technical, Engineering or Manufacturer information on sampling or profiling equipment

Complete if you know of someone that can provide useful technical or engineering input

 Name:  Institution/Company
 Phone:   Email

Area of expertise

Sampling or Profiling Equipment

Brief Description of Sampling/Profiling/Survey Equipment.

Size and Weight of Equipment

Engineers would use this information to estimate loads on the wire.

 Height (feet)  Width or Diameter (feet)  Length (feet) (enter D if round)
     
 Estimate of Surface area in square feet.

 Weight at deployment:

  lbs in air  lbs in water

 Does equipment gain or lose weight during deployment and how much?
  Gain Lose  Amount in lbs: :

Parameters of the Deployment

 Depth of deployment in meters:

 Average

 Maximum

 Wire speed in meters/min:

 Payout

Recovery

 Type of deployment (Check all that apply):
 midwater only  drag on sea floor   drive on sea floor  penetrate sea floor
 towed  vertical deployment  deployed - released   maneuvered ( ROV)
  cycled in and out during deployment

Avg # of cycles per deployment   

 

  Range of cycles (in Meters)

 

  Duration of deployment for any of the above activities (hours)

Wire Tension and Tension Factors

 Estimate of maximum tension on wire during deployment:

   lbs

 Maximum weight of any samples collected:

   lbs

 Estimate of maximum pullout for cores:

   lbs

 Maximum penetration of sea floor by cores:

   meters

 Tension needed to break weak link on dragged devices:

  lbs
   

Other Physical Factors effecting your deployments we didn't think of:
(Also use this to elaborate on any of the above items)

Electrical/Power (through the wire) Requirements

 Number of conductors needed:

  

 Size of conductors:

  awg

 Voltage:

  

 Amps:

  Max

Describe power or electrical requirements:

Data Transmission Requirements

 Data Rate:

  Bytes/Second

 Number of discrete data paths needed:

  

Other data transmission requirements:

Do you already use or have you already identified a wire/cable that meets your requirements?

Existing UNOLS Standard:

3 x 19 wire rope: 3/16" 1/4" 3/8" 1/2" 9/16" 7/8"

EM Cable: .252 single cond. .322 three cond. .680 coax .680 fiber optic

Other non - standard wire or cable:

Wire Rope Copper conductors Fiber Optic Synthetic
Other (describe below)

Manufacturer:
Model Number or Name of wire/cable:

Description of wire or cable or source for specs. Describe how the wire or cable
you are currently using limits your science or if it makes it possible to do
your work what factors are most important:

ANY OTHER THOUGHTS OR COMMENTS THAT WILL HELP US ACHIEVE OUR GOALS:

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