Homebuilt ROVs Forum

Hi Everyone, The names Del, I have been working offshore in the ROV industry for nearly 12 years and for the most part really enjoy it, tinkering is in the blood and I'm tempted to build my own ROV for fun not sure when or how but thought this looks like a good place to start. Anyway if you folks wa...

This indeed would be quite a challenge. I have used systems in the past that have what we call in the industry as soft buoyancy, e.g tanks that can be flooded or blown to alter the buoyancy of the ROV. However these ROV.'s still need some form of regular buoyancy to prevent the ROV turning over. How...

The use of oils in rov systems are fairly commonplace, we have a few systems that have oil filled junction boxes with a small compensator to have the pressure slightly above ambient. The oil we use in that systems is corn oil / mazola which you can buy at any supermarket. The only issue we had with ...