by Sid Sideslip » Thu Jan 12, 2012 11:49 pm
Yup, great videos Bruce and Paul! I've been busy building conventional models over Xmas/New year and am just now building my new cloverleaf and skew planar antennas, helped greatly by Paul's video. Hope to have my first FPV flight next week using an axn.
The Rx patch set-up will be great to see and I love the fact that Bruce will be showing how to do your own Tx' modules and Rx patch mixing boards.
I guess the next question though will be r/c transmitter range. I doubt I'll be flying anywhere near two kilometres at first, but eventually I guess the range of the frsky system will need a similar switching patch boost.
As regards axn bareback systems. I made up a tail dragger undercarriage platform and FPV mounting board that straps underneath the model. I've tested it without the fpv gear and found the wheels need to be pretty far ahead of the leading edge for take off, else it just noses over, but it's another easy way to mount all the gear quickly and have good cooling airflow, just using a few rubber bands... two under the canopy and two at the trailing edge behind the motor. GPS for the Remzibi OSD is on top, but just plugs in easy.
Edit: I'm thinking of making take off easier by mounting a short (non-steerable) trailing castor wheel to a newer design. Will post pics when (and if) it works OK. Incidentally, the camera will be on a HobbyKing pan-tilt head, with the ability to look straight down or even behind.
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Sid Sideslip on Fri Jan 13, 2012 12:26 am, edited 1 time in total.
What goes up...better bloody stay up (until I say otherwise).