Hi,
I was doing a dam inspection, and the rov went over a small dam. There was a little damage to the frame, but didn’t look like anything major.
I after recovering the ROV, we went for a second attempt the ROV booted up and worked for a little until it said the ROV lost communications but the video stream was still coming in.
I rebooted the ROV, and the video came through, but there was no communication. I opened Blue OS in the web browser and noticed the navigator was not communicating the Raspberry Pie.
I’m at my shop now trying to troubleshoot the issue. I replaced the raspberry pie and navigator with a new one, but I still have the same issue. OTPS. Powers the ROV and is in a heavy configuration. I checked all the voltages, the 5 v, and I got 5.13 v on both 5 v connectors, and I got 15.9 v coming in from the power supply.
I don’t know what would be causing the navigator to not communicate with the raspberry pie. My only idea is that maybe one of the thrusters or other peripherals shorted out and damaged the navigator. As I reconnected everything when I installed the new navigator and raspberry pie.
My questions are: what could be causing the navigator to not communicate with the raspberry pie, and how would I check the thruster to see if they have a short that would damage the electronics? any Ideas would be helpfull