Fan of Complicated Project

[Pitbull81]

Well hi everyone
I will appologize right now: Im french so my english is probably not the best ever seen, but i will do my very best.

Im member of this forum since few weeks, but this is my first post. Ive been away for a month cause of my job.

About me: Im 28, from canada. I have not particular knowledge in electronics, rc or underwater enginering. to be honest, im brand new in this world.
but since Im working on this project, ive start learning a lot of different thing that I hope will be usefull eventually.

My project: Build a rov from scratch and send it by 300m deep. Or let say, build it able to support that depth.

Dont tell me its impossible... there is always a way;)

So its why Im here. Ive seen many genius project here. I hope Ill be able to find some help and share ppl knowledge.

thx

Karl

[KR2_Diving]

Welcome!!!

NOTHING is impossible if you set your mind to it! 300m will present many challenges for you! There is a lot of good material and ideas on this forum that i am sure will help you out!!!

Best of luck on your build!

Happy Diving!

Ryan
"KR2_Diving"

[TigerShark]

I am building mine to do about that depth. I'll be working on 100m for the immediate future. The tether and syntactic foam is my only limitation to overcome currently.

[kendelrio]

Good luck friend! 300m is a heck of a target out of the box, but with patience and research I'm sure you'll do fine! If there's anything I can do to help, feel free to ask!

[bigbadbob]

300m is definately not impossible Pitbull, but may be expensive.
This is one of few areas where aiming low is a good thing. haha.
If you have the funds anything is possible.
I once flew an ancient commercial ROV that had been derated to 350m
due to it's age, I sweated a bit at 350m and swear i could hear it creak.

[perfo]

300m does sound interesting. I have one project where it would have to go to 600 m but I've got far too much else to think about now so wont progress (even mentally) my future possible 600 m project. However I will be watching and learning how you get one with yours.

I'm no expert with ROVs but from a physics point of view I would guess that making it as small as possible would help as the pressure increase i.e. keeping the hoop stresses down. May be even machine it out of a solid lump of ally ?
Filling the whole thing with oil or demin watery also help structural stresses. The Camera lens would have to be dealt with separately though I guess....

I'm a keen liker of Montreal as well...