Sea-Test Performance of a Unique Connector-Less Hydrophone Array

摘要

To produce a low drag, easily deployed, large aperture, 64-element hydrophone array an electromechanical termination and seal was potted coaxially with the hydrophone assembly. The braided armor cable (.312-in. OD) of 26 guage wire (1700 lbs UTS was terminated in a distance of 0.625-in. with a steel conical clamp that in turn was joined to the Torlon end-cap is about 3-in. long and 2,5-in. in diameter, together with a 4-in. long electronics case, the entire unit is 2.5-in. by 11-in. The array has been deployed successfully at sea nearly fifty times over the last two years from the R/P FLIP without any mechanical failures.