Homebuilt ROVs Forum

Received the first camera housing today, :D I like it, is a little heavy but works excellent so far, I played with all the knobs and no water came in, I will be sealing them anyway and only leave 3 for wiring to come out, but this thing is strong and very well made. I might need to redesign the moto...

Received the first camera housing today, :D I like it, is a little heavy but works excellent so far, I played with all the knobs and no water came in, I will be sealing them anyway and only leave 3 for wiring to come out, but this thing is strong and very well made. I might need to redesign the moto...

Got the motors, ESCs, Props, Dive flashlight, gripper this week, Im only waiting on the camera housing. The flashlight is rated 1200lm and is only 1 mode, I will have 2 of this wired to a RC switch, they have 3 orings. $7 each. Not bad. The gripper will require some modification to make it waterproof.

have you used a camera housing before? if so what kind of luck have you had with it? would you build a small frame around it to mount the equipment and use the dry cell section for camera and electronics only, just having the wire penetrations to a minimum? This is my first time with everything ROV...

Just bought this one too for $44 shipped

Ian MacKenzie wrote:Sexy. What's it rated for depth wise?

Its rated for 200ft, more than enough for what I need

A little update, I was planning on making a custom hull, but I found a nice waterproof camera housing on eBay that might fit my bill for now.

for $75 shipped is worth a try.

Welcome crd, and nice design with the laser cutting etc. I can appreciate why you are wanting to use coax, but be aware that thin coax is very "lossy" ie, has high attenuation at the frequencies you are using. Looking at a data sheet, at 1GHz it is about 1.5dB per metre, meaning that for ...

I am curious to see how long the tether can be wen sending PPM over it. Do you have any idea about this yet? I'm waiting for some electronics to test this too. But another option will be using a normal 2.4ghz radio control TX/RX. RX will be inside the ROV with a very long 1.13mm flex coax cable and...

Hi CRD.... Regarding the PPM signal, do you intend to have a topside RX, then output PPM through the tether? what would be your subside controls? PPM to PWM converter? or something else? I'm toying with this idea for another project i've considered once my baby ROV is complete. I'm still deciding a...