JONA ROV has been experiencing major power stability problems with its 5V system. I’ve been attempting to isolate and solve the problem for… a while, and I’m still not really any closer to solving it.

“Image of the new power distribution board”

The new Power Distribution Board is done and it has quite the janky capacitor+diode addition to it. I can’t really tell if the capacitor is helping much, though.

“Image of the 5V capacitors”

I tried adding some capacitors to the 5V system and they do help, but they also make turning the ROV on a bit of a hassle. The RPi5 is fussy with how it receives power and the capacitors interfere with it turning on smoothly. I ended up adding a 2.2mF capacitor and a 2.5F supercapacitor.