Homebuilt ROVs Forum

Yeah...these were by far the cheapest bilge pumps I could find haha, and I don't see any problem with them yet. The props are Proboat brand, seems to be the only thing I could find at the local hobby store. For the adapter, I super glued an aluminum tube onto the bilge pump rod, and the tube was als...

Here's my newly finished ROV...couldn't even have come close to doing this without the help of this website! http://i.imgur.com/NWLoKG1.jpg It's powered with three propeller modified 800 GPH bilge pumps, 1.9" proboat propeller on the up/down thruster, and 1.7" proboat propellers on the for...

This might be more of a conceptual physics question, but is it possible to use a battery charger directly as the power source if you are controlling a ROV from land? Mainly: is the charger just a simple AC to DC converter? If so, the question I then had is how can the charger define both the voltage...

Hey all, first time poster here, so I've been researching ROVs for about a month now and decided I should first work on getting a good thruster setup, at the moment I have a non waterproofed brushed DC motor with a 40mm prop, and it puts out about 3/4 lb of thrust @ 2.5A. My questions are... -Is the...