Homebuilt ROVs Forum

I must say that my lego collection did not include so many motors and remote options as there are now available. I had one motor which was connected by a wire to the battery and that had a switch with three options forward reverse and neutral

Nice trick, did not thought of that one

Big plus for you is that in water sound travels further. Disadvantage of this system is that you only can do half duplex and think about both the land side and rov side sending information at the same time which generates more noise.

Something I learned with camera's and diving, always take something with you that is white. So you can adjust by focusing on that. So If there is a bit of your ROV always visible on the camera paint that in white and your are set

Not really my cup of tea, but a lot depends on the connections available on your camera. So lets start with which type is the camera?

Beautiful shape, only I think that the watertightness leaves something to desire. I think that you can achieve a better succes with swaping the whole dome if required. Because a flat surface is "easy" to make waterproof.

UTP has a max distance of 100m with Cat 5 cable. Practical with interference it is a bit lower around 80m is the max I managed in a network setup with good cable, but interference of lamp transformators. I'm sorry, i'm a mechanical engineer so i'm still learning a lot of the tech side of the hobby....

Not my build but liked it a lot:
https://youtu.be/MdfUSNzc0Xk

UTP has a max distance of 100m with Cat 5 cable. Practical with interference it is a bit lower around 80m is the max I managed in a network setup with good cable, but interference of lamp transformators.

Is your issue simulair like this one: https://forums.adafruit.com/viewtopic.p ... 35#p339477 there are several solutions in that thread. I find the adafruit forum excellent fir debuging sensor issues.