1 Year Anniversary of the 900m ROV!

Hey Kurt, Yes. We actually were planning to redeploy last week but our ride fell through. The failure ended up being a simple fix. Just a loose connection in the battery balancer cable. The hybrid charger board we are using is a one-of-a-kind prototype BR produced as a potential new product that ended up being cancelled. It was definitely not designed for this application and has some annoying things like not working if the battery thermistor or balancing cable is not plugged in. Beggers can’t be choosers though!

The biggest challenge was that I had to redesign and scale down the overall platform and rebuild it all within a month which we were able to do. We’ll hopefully have another redeployment date in October but not guaranteed. Here are a few pictures of the revised platform during setup and assembly