Homebuilt ROVs Forum

I was an AS2 at AIMD, Oceania Virginia beach. That was in 2006. I am now in RI, still working for the Navy, but not uniformed. So pool test went well, minus one tiny leak which I fixed, my fault I overlooked a micro gap but a vacuum test quickly found that. Camera has the feed back quality of a pota...

What are those side rails? Looks like 80/20

@Ian - I really haven't the foggiest on the printer type as I just outsourced it to one of my friends. They came out pretty sturdy so no complaints from me. @Bennachie - Yup, you nailed that one. I can't stand having an attached umbilical so that was an elegant solution. I dug through the parts pin ...

Well, I found this stuffed in my storage unit forgotten about in my land of misfit toys. I dug it out and after a few weeks of ridiculousness, its ready for some sea trials! I made a simple relay board until I get my Ardunio PS2 and motor controller for full digital control board to swap out with. I...

You absolutely right. I've just been using 9volts this whole time for testing and whatnot, so I figured I'd just stick with it.

Here is my voltage drop board. When the 12v+ gets to the ROV, its dropped down on this board to 9v and 6v respectively. The 9 volts goes to power the Ardunio and the 6 volts goes to power the servos. I wanted less wires running back and forth, so this was my solution. Looks horrible but this is a pr...

Try lowering your baud rate.. I know at fast speeds with serial there tends to be problems like getting gibberish like you have there.

Got my side pods mounted, and yes its tilted to one side, the pods are pretty darn straight for eyeballing the holes. The carriage is crooked but I'll straighten that out shortly. I have the pods mounted with male/male 3/8" pipe fittings for my wire pass thru. They will be pipe taped on the thr...

Heat. Well, I'm sure they will build up some heat. But I figure since they will have an off and on switch and won't be on 100% of the time and housing will be surrounded by much cooler water, I don't think that will be a big issue at the moment. The construction is a mock up of the how to section on...

Well, on the box it says not to be used with dimmers..so I'm leaning towards no dimming. I have a 1/4" thick acrylic piece in front of the LED. I will try dimming them and see what happens with an Ardunio and a transistor. If I blow it up..so be it. For science!!