What the whole model? Not sure, thats one thing I havnt done, I dont have any scales
When I come across some I will stick them on.
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What the whole model? Not sure, thats one thing I havnt done, I dont have any scales
When I come across some I will stick them on.
What the whole model? Not sure, thats one thing I havnt done, I dont have any scales
When I come across some I will stick them on.
Just trying to work out it's lethal coefficient.
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Thanks for all the help everyone. I’ll aim for 475g without ties and some wires etc.
I've dropped the battery down to 1500mah with a 40c rating and i've replaced the full naze with the acro naze. It's now looking a bit cheaper!
Is there any other soldering other than onto the controller board?
I've dropped the battery down to 1500mah with a 40c rating and i've replaced the full naze with the acro naze. It's now looking a bit cheaper!
Is there any other soldering other than onto the controller board?
Are you soldering the naze yourself? I would just pay someone £5 to do it, its very easy to melt pin holding components, or if your no good at soldering in small places, its a nightmare.
Other than that, its soldering ESC's to a power dist board or some sort, some frames (IE like mine diatone silver blade) have a power dist board built in to the frame, others dont and you need a sperate PDB.
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I haven't done soldering since GCSE so would like to avoid it if possible!! I'll be getting mibi to do the soldering
In terms of the power distro board, would this do?
http://www.radioc.co.uk/Abusemark-Multi-Rotor-Power-Distribution-Board-36m-p/4516.htm
Obviously it is overkill (octocopter?). Is three connections per arm sufficient?
In terms of the power distro board, would this do?
http://www.radioc.co.uk/Abusemark-Multi-Rotor-Power-Distribution-Board-36m-p/4516.htm
Obviously it is overkill (octocopter?). Is three connections per arm sufficient?
very easy to overheat the plastic pin holders and start the meltdown process
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Yay my replacement Syma finally arrived!
Boo it's hurricane season or something!
(More boo that the my old syma is nowhere to be seen, so it must have fallen out the tree and someone else has had it)
Boo it's hurricane season or something!
(More boo that the my old syma is nowhere to be seen, so it must have fallen out the tree and someone else has had it)
Anyone know if I can get battery telemitry output without the means of an external module through the naze board? is it just a case of sticking a connector on and hooking up the wires to one of the -+ pads on my power board? then somehow calibrate it?
With the taranis? The naze has a vbat header next to the usb port it is the outer pair furthest of the six from the usb socket , hook a line from the pdb to that and enable telemetry on the naze. in you taranis head to your set up page on your model and enable vfas on your telemetry screen, job done.
Be careful and remember positive wire to the inside of the board, ground to the outer. the naze has no reverse polarity protection so you will fry it if plugged in wrongly, I have done it and so has one other in this thread that I can remember. easily done!
you will need a lead form the telemetry pins, 2 closest to the usb socket wired to the d4rII's telemetry in.
Be careful and remember positive wire to the inside of the board, ground to the outer. the naze has no reverse polarity protection so you will fry it if plugged in wrongly, I have done it and so has one other in this thread that I can remember. easily done!
you will need a lead form the telemetry pins, 2 closest to the usb socket wired to the d4rII's telemetry in.
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Yeh so from naze to frsky.
Wil have a look ta, need to get something on there. Its not like its falling out the sky and crashing to bits (you know when its low as the throttle slowly drops and brings it down slowly), but i don't want to run the batteries dry every session
Wil have a look ta, need to get something on there. Its not like its falling out the sky and crashing to bits (you know when its low as the throttle slowly drops and brings it down slowly), but i don't want to run the batteries dry every session
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Doing mine tonight. Reports are that it fixes the controller disconnect issue and has improved the video quality in a number of ways.
Just ordered some ND8, ND16, ND32, and ND64 filters for the Inspire from a guy on Inspire Pilots who has had a bunch made.
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Definitely going for a cheeky flight today as the wind has died today!
Any more of these available? I want to get some NDs so I'm not filming at a ridiculously high shutter...
Have a look on Inspire Pilots. I think the threading is different on the P3 camera so it may take normal 37mm filters. Not sure though. The Inspire has a wierdo threading.
To reduce motion blur and jello mostly. It's a result of the combination of CMOS sensor, scan speeds and shutter speed.
As a cmos sensor scans the image progressively, if the shutter speed is too fast, you will get two or more video frames to every scan of the sensor and strange effects creep in. This how jello happens and why you have a ccd sensor on your fpv camera, much less sensitive to vibration as it takes the image off the sensor in one go.
I think I've got that right but prepared to be corrected as I'm no expert with video.
Oh and...... So much want.....
As a cmos sensor scans the image progressively, if the shutter speed is too fast, you will get two or more video frames to every scan of the sensor and strange effects creep in. This how jello happens and why you have a ccd sensor on your fpv camera, much less sensitive to vibration as it takes the image off the sensor in one go.
I think I've got that right but prepared to be corrected as I'm no expert with video.
Oh and...... So much want.....