Homebuilt ROVs Forum

Thanks for the tip Ross! I had heard of the baluns set up but was not sure if I needed it. The cat 5 that I've been testing with is not twisted so I'm sure it will not hold a good video signal but have not tried it yet. Only tried the PPM so far. I'll be trying my best to use a typical OSD set up bu...

Just thought I'd share what I'm trying to do / have done so far. I am working on converting an old Aqua video under water video camera housing into an ROV. And I want to be able to control it with my RC airplane controller a turnigy 9XR. So far I have been able to use the FrSky receiver and transmit...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/50W-High-Power-Cool-White-LED-Chip-Light-With-Transformer-Power-Supply-Driver-/221531838876?pt=US_Lighting_Parts_and_Accessories&hash=item339453999c Has anyone used this type of light? I recently got 2 of them and was wanting to use them on my first ROV. Also do any of yo...

Hello, jumping in here. Did you ever test out how far the PPM can go? Im going to be running a similar set up. Looking at running a Turnigy 9XR running er9x firmware with a FrSky tx and rx. Looking at running the ppm out of the rx and through a 100' cat5 to the ppm decoder and out to 3 escs, a switc...

Hello everyone! I'm Dallas and I live in Denton Texas. I'm working on my first ROV for my dad to use out in San Diego. My background includes RC aircraft and Cars for over 10 years. I have been flying FPV (first person view) for the past 3 years and figured an underwater ROV would be a natural progr...