Homebuilt ROVs Forum

The cable is used for hard hat divers and is supposed to be neutrally bouyant, altough I am not totally convinced ;). It has 10 cores plus a coax. I use six of the cores for power to increase the wire cross section to minimise voltage drop, 4 are used for RS485 comms and the coax for video. I had a ...

Nothing planned yet....but would like to attach sonar at some point in time....side scan probably.

The thrusters are machined ali with acetal ends, motors are geared 12v and the props are from a boat thruster. The system is driven from two car batteries giving 24v, which is converted to 12 inside the ROV. Most of the electronics are home designed using Microchip PIC 16F877A, with speed controller...

Hi All, Saw this site last week and was glad to see I am not the only one! Great stuff on here and some really innovative ideas. Thought you maybe intrested in the ROV I have been building for some time now. When SCUBA diving we try to find the wreck we want to dive using sonar....not always sure th...