Homebuilt ROVs Forum

AWESOME!

You should have brought down a plaque and left it there!

Great work.

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ELECTRIFY the frame, keeps the 'gators away!

This system has been used on commercial ROV in the past, ie, workable.

Peltier device's (thermoelectric) efficiency is lousy, but probably good enough to generate enough power to activate a small packet transmitter to send data to shore when your AUV would surface. Yeah, i think it would have to be an AUV application to be of any practical use, and also forget about cr...

NEC has the most nifty small 3D screen now, I was amazed when I saw a demo about 2 months ago. No idea of the cost or the kind of video feed it takes. But it is "out there".

There is also 3D video glasses but they are costly. Good reviews about them though...

I use 14AWG copper piece of wires, through a tight hole in PVC enclosure, backfilled with epoxy on both sides. I try to put them where there is a recess inside the PVC enclosure (electrical junction box, water/sewer pipe screw-on covers, etc...), so that my regular internal wire (with insulation ove...

DAMN THE TORPEDOES!!!

Do it again! With the pool's lights off!

Allright, so you are going with the big umbilical, eh? You will probably need to make it neutrally, or slightly positively, buyoant, so as to lighten the load on the thrusters.

Keep us posted!