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Seafox Controller & Tether
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The Controller for my Seafox was made from 2 arcade joysticks, a few other simple switches, and a project box. Control is still basic on/off for the thrusters using the 2 sticks and the other 2 switches control the tilt for the camera and open/close of the manipulator.
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| The Tether consist of the camera cable and phone wire for power for the thrusters. Everything was wrapped with a spiral wire warp and I cut up foam pipe insulation and wired it onto the tether to keep it neutral buoyant.
This is far from being perfect because the wires are not really protected and could be severed by anything sharp during a dive. If I were ever to redo things I would switch to Cat5e cable to protect the power wires a little better. |
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| Connections from the tether to the Rov are connected in a project box on terminal strips and then the box is filled with wax to seal everything. |
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