3D Printed ROV – Lighting

(June 2022) – After a four year hiatus from this project (life what can I say) it was time to start work on some Lighting.  I am going to try to use these cheap 1100 Lumen Scuba Dive flashlights I found on Amazon.

I started by designing some brackets that will hold some external dive flashlights. These are simple mounts for now just for testing.

The dive light will just be held in place on the bracket with some simple zip ties.

I also designed some clip on shades to hopefully keep the light from scattering to much into the camera view.

Here is the printed bracket and the Dive flashlights.

The dive light bracket just mounts to the same holes that hold the frame to the float pod.

The strap bracket on the light fits into this tab on the bracket to keep it in place.

Two zip ties will then keep everything in place.

The angles will probably eventually change but for now this should work for testing. I still need to print the other side and the shades.

I updated the bracket slightly just to keep the flashlight from spinning while trying to turn the end cap to turn it on.

Here both diver lights have been mounted.

They may be a little to spot lighty (is that a word?) but I’ll have to get it in the water to see how it looks. I may be able to fix this with different lens covers. The angles may need fixing also but I’ll wait till I get it in the water before I change anything.

To be continued soon….

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