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Dome
This is the first attempt at blowing an acrylic dome for the front of the ROV that houses the main camera.
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Tether
The tether is twisted with a home made rope twisting machine.
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Catch Mechanism:
The catch mechanism is a telescopic spear based on a fibreglass telescopic fishing rod.
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Electronics and Control
I’m struggling to find a 48v dcdc step down converter that will deliver 12v 20a on output. I could just run the tether at 32v and reduce the power at the ROV and use a standard converter. Or maybe run the tether at 48v AC and step down with a transformer?
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Through Hull Connector:
The Through Hull Connector takes the tether connections, signals from the sensors and power to the motors through the pressurized hull of the ROV. I think that the OpenROV idea of potting (sealing with resin) the wires through the hull is beautifully simple.
These are pulled off the blog so you can easly find them:
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Acrylic Dome
This is the first attempt at blowing an acrylic dome for the front of the ROV that houses the main camera.
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Arduino - Beaglebone black
The brains of the ROV. A post with some info on the Arduino and Beaglebone black and the infulence from OpenROV. Plus a video about battery testing.
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Auxiliary pod
The AUX_pod is made from standard plumbing bits: 50mm MDPE pipe union, acrylic dis and is used to house the secondary camera and targeting laser.
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Batterie's
More info on the battier’s used for fishingROV. The test equipment (Arduino/large resistors) and charge controllers.
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Blog
A blog about fishing ROV. Most of the post are by David on all aspects of the ROV.
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hyperbolic test chamber
A big hyperbolic test chamber. Help test everything properly before throwingthe ROV in the water.
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Prop's
The prop’s were 3d printed by Andy. They are putting out some really good thrust. (includes information about other parts of the ROV)
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Tether
The tether is twisted with a home made rope twisting machine. Tether – 2 X 18awg equipment wire twisted with a 4h nylon cord to reinforce.Tether-test-run