DIY High Power Underwater Light on ROV Submarine
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- Опубліковано 3 кві 2023
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Next time, use silicon sealant between the lens the same way you did but don't torque the screws down all the way. Let the silicon set and essentially make a perfect seal, then torque the screws down so that you maintain pressure on the newly formed rubber seal. This has helped me in the past.
Love the videos!
Edit: Okay don't use silicon! Use whatever sealant is best but the technique is valid. Basically making your own custom seal and then tighten down onto it.
Don't use silicone. Use 3M 4200 marine sealant.
@@trey1531 And give it a little time to skin over before torquing the screws.
better tip: don't use sikicone to water seal. Silicone is crap compared to orings. Your shape is not round? Use oring string from diy oring kits
@@ihavecojones actually you're right, one big oring around the outside in a rounded groove and she's good to go. Multiple large diameters in motors are oringed.
This is how you reseal oil pans on cars that don't use gaskets, let it dry and then tighten more
Thumbnail is good.
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my favorite thing about your channel is that you just make whatever you're interested in, not what seems like a good fit for youtube. I hope you never change that!
I honestly keep coming back because of how I know I'm not getting a one attempt and over video. We know you are going to normally design something, test it, improve it, and when even my doubts are like "Nah he's not gonna get this" somehow you freaking pull it off. If you don't, we still learn. It's an amazing formula that I fall for every time and I love it :D
Hi Daniel, Very cool video! I think you need to remove the reflector to get more even lighting. The reflector is concentrating the light beam, which is OK, if you want to look at a small area with intensive lighting. But for your purpose, and also for the sake of camera footage, you will be better of with the natural light flow from the COB. I believe it has something like a 170 degree angle, and no sharp edge. The sharp edge would require too much wide dynamic range for most cameras at this light intensity, I think. Give this IFish some extra light! ;-)
Just from watching all this guys videos, I personally think this guy is a certified genius. Hes so damn smart and comes up with some crazy ideas that work amazing. Just taking some engineering classes won’t make you this smart. I feel like the majority of the time, my brain thinks up all these cool ideas like this, but I have the hardest time getting the motivation and energy to get up and make them, especially with everything going on in my life. I wish I had this guys energy. Huge props man, you’re one of the most creative channels I’ve ever watched!
Cool little small projects we really need more of these
Using multiple lights aiming in opposite directions with diffusers / silks on them may yield better results. The directional lens is limiting you, especially when trying to paint the largest area of light possible for long exposures
exactly my thought, maybe a less aggressive reflector might help aswell, for diffusion he could just sand a circular area on the PC window where the COB and reflector are located
@@datpudding5338 Or maybe a diffuser dome, like an underwater ceiling light.
@@PongoXBongo or even that when going for a more sophisticated construction!
Just thought of the time when I literally just sanded the surface of a piece of acrylic glass because I had just a bare bulb socket and a beheaded LED bulb (meaning one without the diffuser bit). It worked surprisingly well!
pro tip, on your next revision add a port to fill the case with argon, and another port to evacuate the air , to replace the moist air inside the housing with argon, and toss a little bag of silica gel into it before sealing the front plate. try not to pressurize the insides, just flood it at atmospheric pressure with argon for a bit. its how we make night vision systems condensation free.
Why argon? Is it just easily available or does it serve another purpose?
@@AngeEinstein it is an inert gas, dry, displaces air and is easily available.
Colin really pulled the first segment together. 10/10 water goblin.
Real creative and amazing work!
Love your videos!
That was way COOL! I like both pics, the uneven and photoshopped of the underside of the montlake bridge. The "little fish that found a friend" likely was blinded by all the light and just trying to snuggle up next to something bigger. LOL
You should try a diffuser for the light. Instead of clear acrylic use white for the waterproof shield
I like your aimless projects. I like all of your projects. I really like when your friend makes songs to go with them.
“optimal underwater lighting, for maximum party vibes“ what a banger of a statement
Do a waypoint mission in a grid pattern for even light laying!
I'd recommend designing a groove for an o-ring for the housing closure. Have it weave around the inside side of all the screws. Silicone, plus an o-ring would definitely help seal that bad boy up
ye, and using o-rings at the lid instead of silicone makes opening/repairing it way easier to do
@@datpudding5338 exactly 👌
It would be really handy between the hull and deck of his other boats too
I love this idea! Great vid! I think it would be really cool to have the light on a 360 swivel so you could cover more area quickly.
Man, the amount of your video output is really impressive.
love that right after the shot of you wondering at the amount of particulates in the air, you have a glimpse of port industry smokestacks in the next shot
Pcbway really are pretty slick these days that light came out great!
A deployable fishing magnet might be a worthwhile endeavor too!
This would be very useful for underwater search and rescue applications.
So the problem I have with your videos is that I find them so interesting and inspiring I basically spend the whole rest of my day (maybe week) trying to design my own random cool boats/planes. Please don't stop!!
You could lower the exposure on the Timelapse so it’s not clipping. Take a separate photo for the background as it’s static. This could make for a more even end result. Or use bracketing for multiple exposures and combine them as hdr.
New possibilities for exploration and finding lost treasures! ❤
"So I climbed down further into the dumpster" Love it. If you ever do a meet and greet in Seattle I'd definitely come out.
This is so cool please continue with this would love to see a whole lake long exposure shot
The shots are so good. Really cool vision and super fun video Daniel. Thanks for sharing your vacation ☺️
Hardware heavy solutions to problems that don't really exist.
*Awesome.*
I need this lighting system for one of my projects and i haven't found any decently priced submersible LEDs yet so thanks, the plans will come in handy.
Dude, this is why photographers invented flash lights. Set up a down facing strobe on a boat and set a waypoint or manual mission to cover the area to be illuminated. It can all be battery powered using on camera SLR style flash units. We used to do this back in the 90's... On film!
8:19 bro I swear that looks so familiar
Got my blueberry oatmeal, my caramel espresso, my bong full of gelato, and a new RCTestFlight video. My morning couldn't get any better.
Bong full of gelato? In the bowl or the tube?
@@_D_P_ It's the strain.
Makes me want to build an easy RC boat with that polyiso insulation! Keep up the projects Daniel!
Cool video, always a fan of ROV dives, Schmidt Ocean has live dives with their ROV on YT, actually all this week, but I mention that so you can compare lighting effects. Their ROV camera is picking up green light as well and they are diving at depths in excess of 3500 meters. Keep up the cool videos
So many people giving advice. I like the video and the concept. Doesn't have to be perfect just has to work and it did. This would probably sell as a kit on your website. I'm sure photographers would be interested.
So cool! You could sell long exposure pics, offering buyers to add their names. Create waypoints for the sub, set up camera and, voila!, a personalized product from RCTESTFLIGHT! 👍🏼
It's great to see your channel grow. I've been here a long time and I enjoy your work.
THANK YOU
Instead of compositing, you should try a very long exposure shot on a DSLR with low ISO and low aperture (and ND filters if needed to lower the amount of light hitting the sensor even more), and then try to drive at a constant pace. It could make for very cool effects... but the sea weed would probably appear super "soft" and blurry secause of ripples on the water, underwater currents etc.
Or bulb mode.
the problem with this approach would be the super bright spot making huge trails covering up everything
A fleet of autonomous lighting submarines would be crazy cool around a boat. Especially if you can tune the lighting color
Awesome. Looks amazing.
Great idea. I bet if you try what you usually use, the GPS rover style light trail, and try and overlap the path that it follows. You should get a close to perfect shot. Minus the waves and the wind messing with the trajectory of the light.
The moment I saw how you made the cable pass trough and port window seal, I knew it will leak.
Epoxy shrinks when it cures ! Creating a slight gap all round, that is not necessarily visible by eye.
One way of overcoming this, is by casting the wire into epoxy, then coat it in silicone.
If you make something like a cone that fits into a cable gland that can be tightened, you have less
chance of leakage.
Front port is better done with a routed groove and O-ring, or cured silicone bead in groove, before
tensioning the port window.
Bear in mind, the meat and air inside will expand a lot due to heat, than shrink rapidly when cooling down,
essentially drawing water in.....
You could fill the lamp body with mineraloil. this solves the buoyancy issue aswell as the water creep. the water wants to get inside because of the pressure delta. having the oil in it would keep the pressure the same and it also helps to keep the leds and inductor cool
I thought similar . You think the mineral oil would scatter the light any differently?
@Chris Barter it would have some effect. But it might be negligible because of the output power of the light. Als if the oil is directly touching the led. The light will refact less compared to air. I have seen it somewhere it has to do with the difference in refraction between 2 mediums
Mineral clear oil can be used
if you can't keep air out; does this run the risk of allowing a bubble to eventually form inside?
This was fun. Thank you.
finally you answered my thoughts
Hi Daniel, nice video as always. It changes from regular videos! Have a nice day
Those timelapse photos remind me of the bioluminescence you get in the tropics, very cool.
I have been eagerly awaiting this video, I love the submarine videos.
I love the idea of Daniel attending a lake party only to spend it building an RC flashlight boat. Sounds like my kind of party lol
That's so cool, that's like the color of the water
I know its a baser instinct, but I love your "lets make a really big light and attach it to something that moves" videos!
Keep this project going!!! I’m seeing Ardusub in the future!
Maybe with a boat that has an adjustable stick in the water, and exposing light on boths sides and some autopilot you could get some great results!
But damn, great video as usual, love that RC DIY stuff!!
The dumpster is always fascinating
Brilliant. Well done.
Oh that is such a cool idea!!!
Awesome idea 💯 I could think of a million things to do with it 💯👏👏😎
I haven't made any waterproof containers but I think they usually have a seal inside the screw parameter and compress it to make sure it seals well.
Neat project, and although the end result wasn't to your expectation it still looked wonderfully surreal. Hope we get to see some treasure hunting missions with the FIFISH grabber arm soon!
I really want to try some version of this, really cool project
Great photo result of the bridge.
Probably worth checking a snack packet (silica gel) in the enclosure to absorb any additional moisture.
Great video!
Awesome project! Have you thought about milling or etching out a groove in the polycarbonate to fit an o-ring?
Put some of the anti moisture bags in your lights or make the air very dry where you seal it.
Most ACs have a dehumidification mode in them.
Tip... To STOP condensation buildup on final assembly, place the whole unit into an oven on low temp - say 70-90° C for a few minutes to help drive out any residual moisture, then quickly place lid on top whilst still quite warm, this will help drive out cool moist air, and trap warm DRY air inside... It works, I've done many a car/motorcycle headlight unit this way 👍. 😎🇬🇧
it would be sooo cool to see like 3 of them on a line at different depth's. oh oh you should make like 9 drones and do an underwater drone show RGB style yer that would be so sick
You can underexpose the camera (with apeture and iso) and just leave it with a 60+ second exposute while you drive around. No photoshop required, just get the right settings on the camera :)
That was so cool and pretty shots. The winch probably got some help from buoyancy
Awesome design . I do wonder if the water ingress could be caused by the temperature increase in the trapped air inside causing it to build pressure and force some air out. This could then pull a bit of a vacuum pulling in water when it cools?
Just want to say Onshape is amazing I built a tilt rotator for an excavator from scratch in about 4 months, that includes learning time 😊
If I ever get into building projects, definitely gonna hit up PCB way.
Now you just need to build the same light setup you put on that bigass drone a few years back and see how _that_ looks underwater😉
Best option is make a water block, brass wire maybe 40mm long with centre 30mm portion set in epoxy, solder wires to both ends. We use it to 3000m
4am pst upload, fuck yeah. I love everything about your video style and ideas!
I already see a lot of helpful comments but i'm not sure if anyone has mentioned yet that he should point the light at the bottom to help ease the gradient and over exposure up close to the lens. This relies on the light bouncing off the bottom but from the shots where he had it suspended mid water column and pointed down, the lighting and ability to see the bottom of the lake/river looked better!
I think use an LED strip that is about 10m long and use WLED to make it strobe/pulse different patterns and use it as a 'tail' on the sub. Or even several tails on an arm that is like 12' wide and mounted in the center. Would not be fast, but would look cool.
This is a really cool project, and I love your channel.
This can't be good for wildlife though.
Cooling idea is nice 👍
I remembered an idea I had a while back, & had to mention it. Have you ever considered building a scale model of Alexander Graham Bell's circa 1911 hydrofoil boat? I would absolutely LOVE to see how it would perform overall, especially at high-speeds (relatively), at scale.
I was an apprentince at an ROV workshop. Everything electronic is filled with mineral oil. It removes your issue of condensation but also the issue of high pressures under water. I would have drilled and tapped a m6 or m8 hole in the polycarbonate for filling it with oil and just thread in a bolt with some teflon tape to keep it shut.
The color green, reminds me of mercury Arc Vapor lamp-lighting where you get that greenish Hue in photography
Awesome ! Can you recommend a camera that can be mounted on a pole that would transmit live feed to a phone at say 6-8 feet underwater?
I love all the sub stuff
Daniel is gonna make all the conspiracies come out xD
"DID ANYONE SEE THAT UFO IN THE WATER?!?!"
1:12 nice😂
16:22 That is indeed a Christmas tree for the fish. There is an organization that tosses them in.
Good stuff! Any chance you'll design a lowe r power Lumiboost driver, in the 20-50W range? That would be perfect for my photography needs
also studs in plastic tubes is probably more watertight given you wanna go deep i wouldn't rely on potting to stop intrusion, rather make break at the entry point and gasket the bolt instead, which will double as an insulator to the case, you would just have to protect the studs on the outside but there will be no pressure difference to fight there so something like boat sacrificial coating could work
Cool project and cooler execution! Go o-rings, life is easier
Now I'm wondering if that Fifish RC submarine with its gripper claw would work for hunting sea urchins. The little spiny buggers taste amazing, and there are too many of them in some places, eating the seaweed forests and making underwater deserts.
Need to make the walls of the box where it mates to the plexi wider so you can add a groove for an o-ring. Some SOW cable roughened up to better accept potting, we use 3M 3321 2 part epoxy for making watertight cables, they go to several thousand feet underwater. We usually oil fill and compensate our electronics, transformer oil works well and a simple comp can be made from a blood pressure cuff and a bungee cord.
Cool shot under Montlake Bridge.
You are best to use "sensor safe" RT silicone as it doesn't off gas when curing which causes clouding on transparent surfaces.
lmao when you put corn as LEDs 😂
This looks so amazing, my wallet is crying
Epic video! Convert to the way of the o-ring, brother :). Look up tarkka o-ring sizing video if unfamiliar. That face seal can be o-ringed and also the screws that go through the housing can have boss oring seals like in hydraulics. Sick photos
Autonomous gigging boat would be sweet. 😂
Nice!