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« on: February 10, 2009, 12:27:46 pm »
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Hi everyone,

Browsing the web, i found this website which is inactive :

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http://www.portup.com/~dfount/sidescan.htm
and used thearchive.org to see how it looked like and they gave a link to this forum on it. But seems that things have changed, the old archive showed a side scan sonar area which had a lot of topics and this one only contains 2 or 3.

How could I fine the old one or find schematics to build my own SSS ?

Thanks for all the help you could provide Smiley

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« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2009, 12:35:48 pm »
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Hello,

the SSS projects have all failed. It is near impossible to build ones own transducers. The only person who managed to build great home brewn transducers is Garry Burton.

To sum up it is unfortunately not possible to buy a good working side scan sonar oneself and there are no plans out there.

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« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2009, 02:20:07 pm »
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Hi,

Do you have any link to what has Garry Burton done ? Is it this one :

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http://www.burtonelectronics.com
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I also found this page :

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http://www.abc.se/~pa/sture/index.html


So there must be a way to do it Smiley


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« Reply #3 on: February 10, 2009, 02:47:19 pm »
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Sture has passed away recently and did use commercial transducers at first. Yes, that is Garry Burton. To be honest you are better off buying a 2nd hand unit or a Burton. Sture worked for over 10 years on it - and this did not include the software.

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« Reply #4 on: February 10, 2009, 05:38:11 pm »
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Opsss, may he rest in peace Sad

Second time I stumble on the works of someone and that person just died...

I can't buy a 2nd hand unit, since there is not even 1st hand units in my country so i'll  have to build it from scratch...

The old forum was deleted or is there an archive of it ?

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« Reply #5 on: February 10, 2009, 05:54:39 pm »
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I am sorry if I sound negative but as I said it won't be possible for your to build the transducers yourself. Also you would need to buy the Kevlar enchanced cable from a manufacturer. And then you still need a software for it. My recomendation is to buy a Burton M1 Sonar at approx USD 2000,- it's resolution equals that of a 600khz commercial system. It has a limiation being a single chanel sonar only. Otherwise it is a great unit. Building one yourself would take years and sure would almost equal that amount of money.

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« Reply #6 on: February 10, 2009, 08:04:16 pm »
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Quote:Posted by Christian
I am sorry if I sound negative but as I said it won't be possible for your to build the transducers yourself. Also you would need to buy the Kevlar enchanced cable from a manufacturer. And then you still need a software for it. My recomendation is to buy a Burton M1 Sonar at approx USD 2000,- it's resolution equals that of a 600khz commercial system. It has a limiation being a single chanel sonar only. Otherwise it is a great unit. Building one yourself would take years and sure would almost equal that amount of money.

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Hello Everyone . Christian is correct The cost of buying or building any decent imaging device is still expensive . I am searching for DIY transducers ? Here are two links , the first is great , the second is an example of un-finished Designs or Dreams ?.....Regards......Eugene52

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http://www.ise.bc.ca/design_sensors.html




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I am stunned to hear about Sture Hultqvist. He did some great work.

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« Reply #8 on: February 11, 2009, 06:28:33 am »
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Yes, Sture did very good work. His side scan very really good and he has had many great new ideas which he unfortunately could no longer proceed with. He has had a heart attack last year.

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« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2009, 04:48:22 pm »
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When Quest Electronics run out of business they gave to the interested all the schematics, part lists and code for the microcontroller from their side scan system.

Some information are still on

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http://www.questelectronics.com/2001/
... and all the other things you maybe are missing are in my archive  :Smiley

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