Camera housing

[UnknownROV]

Hi! Which one of these two would be better solution for the camera housing? Camera tilt would be easier to do in the second one but would it deform video how much? I have seen that people use both ones but the first seems to be more common (with flat/dome plexiglass). So what would you guys recommend for me? I'll use a (cheap....) board camera and 7" LCD monitor to see what happens underwater.

[piercet]

From my admittedly limited experiance so far, the first setup will be cheaper and easier to implement. You can make a fairly robust PVC housing with a flange or a threaded seal and flat acrylic plate or a dome cheaper than you can get endcaps for an acrylic tube made. Something along these lines: http://prevco.com/products/stock-items/ ... ngs/p6-501 . You should be able to hit higher depths with a smaller housing like that too.

That being said, in my design I'm going the other route with an 8" acrylic tube from Mcmaster Carr.

[UnknownROV]

Okay, thank you. I have to think about this camera thing a bit more.

[rossrov]

Hi UnknownROV. Maybe consider starting simple, with flat window camera housing, but leave enough wires from the controller housing to do dome with tilt at a later date. Alternatively, if you make a waterproof actuator/servo then you could tilt the simple camera and light housings as a single unit.

[UnknownROV]

Maybe you are right. It's better keep it simpe. Makeing tilt with a waterproofed servo wouldn't be bad idea. Actually I have there one broken servo which I could try to do waterproof and make camera tilt with it. Thank you for the idea! Let's see how it gonna work.