Homebuilt ROVs Forum

Hi All, Since the weekend I have been working on ballasting/trimming the Hybrid BR/OROV ROV Chassis. Due to the OROV Controller Board WTC being that the front of the ROV chassis I had to offset its 90 cu inches of buoyancy with a 2 in inside diameter PVC SCH 40 capped pipe that brought the ROV chass...

Hi All, A week ago last Saturday I completed the battery tray for the two NMHi 4500 mah 9.6 vdc batteries that will be housed in the Battery WTC. The battery tray slides into the Battery WTC and is compressed between the two WTC End Caps so it will not slide around. The tray sits in the WTC tube jus...

Hi All, This last weekend I got the IMU/Depth Sensor Module attached to its mount on the front vertical support plate for the Vertical Thruster and the leads solder and sealed to the their respective wires in the wire harness. https://cdn-business.discourse.org/uploads/openrov/original/2X/c/c0800b5a...

Hi All, I got the Tether Thimble and waterproof two pin connector installed today. As I stated in yesterday's post the Thimble is attached to a stainless steel "Eye" bolt that is attached to the back of the Vertical Thruster rear vertical support. The "Eye" bolt can be easily rem...

Hi All, This last weekend I managed to wire up all three Thrusters to their respective Controller Board ESC wire harness wires using this BR wiring & potting document, fabricated and mounted the IMU Module Bracket on the Vertical Thruster forward vertical Support Plate, and I have mounted and wi...

Hi All, I have completed the routing of the Controller Board 2.8 wire harness in relation to the physical locations of the three Thrusters, the IMU/Compass/Depth Sensor Module, the Battery WTC and the two External Light Cubes that I purchased recently. I will now make the necessary solder connection...

Hi All, I have received the BR custom length (9.5 in) 4 in diameter WTC along with two 6 mm cable penetrators, one pressure relief valve, and two blank cable penetrators which will be used to block off two of the unused cable penetrator holes in the front End Cap Plate. I have potted a two conductor...

@trinescape, Welcome to the Forum. 2.4GHz signals do not penetrate water very well, especially salt water, so unless you have the R/C receiver antenna on the surface you will not get much in the way of depth before losing the signal. I had a submarine that used a 72MHz FM R/C controller and I was ab...

Hi All, Not to worry about me completing this Blue Robotics/BBBMINI ROV Project. It has been very hot in the part of Southern Florida where I live and there have been substantial changes in the ArduSub software that controls the BBBMINI therefore I have concentrated on just performing and verifying ...

I would like to report at this time that I have successfully built and tested an OpenROV IMU/Compass/Depth Sensor Module (http://store.openrov.com/collections/frontpage/products/openrov-imu-depth-module) for my hybrid ROV. I have received the NMHi 9.6 vdc 4500 mah batteries to power the Controller a...