Mounting
larger base plate so Gemini board is not over hanging. The question is, how much larger does it need to be?
New board will have a 30.5 x 30.5 mounting pattern if not already
antenna wires aren’t long enough to connect to Gemini easily. Easiest solution to this is to get longer wires.
stand-offs for GPS and compass → get it away from aluminum
Notes from Roni (EFS co-op) - refer to https://discord.com/channels/776618956638388305/976311690264182834/1255327748432597033
Positional servo that has a hard positional limit instead of continuous rotating would be great. Winch servos that were used are positional but start to rotate forever and lose their position when outside of the recommended pwm range. Servos that know their position even if rotated by hand would be great if that's possible? Maybe that is a standard for all servos but wanted to mention.
Compass and GPS should be as far as possible from circuitry and ferrous metals, other tracking antennas do seem to be okay with using metal in their builds but if we could install those sensors on a non metal pole maybe?
Prefer having the compass and GPS mounted in a way so that they are not affected by the pitch movement of the antenna, instead sitting flat.
Tripod structure is good so that we can make the tracking antenna base (as well as compass etc) mostly flat even on uneven ground
To-do list:
Larger baseplate that follows 30.5mm x 30.5mm mounting pattern
ensures other tracking antenna components can still mount, such as the L brackets
some questions… are the dimensions of the gemini board gonna change Daniel Puratich ? Afaik Gemini needs some debugging, would this affect dimensions? (I think prob not but worth asking)
Mount for GPS - isolated from aluminum
Positional servo
when would a winch servo be outside the recommended PWM range (Smile Khatri doesn’t know much about servo yet)
can this issue be fixed w software? If not we buy new hardware