I have made a test of a NEX5 brushless gimbal used on my X8 Arducopter platform.
The video is raw and has not been post-processed.
For the more technical among you:
-Arducopter APM2.5 platform, firmware V3.0.1
-2-axis (tilt/roll) Brushless gimbal for Sony NEX5 from altigator.com (it is in fact a (re)labeled RC timer aluminium gimbal), using white labeled GBM5010 brushless motors (150 turns, able to hold 500gr cameras)
-Sony NEX5R with 16-50mm objective. This big sensor compact camera delivers 50 frames/sec video and 16 mios pixels pictures. It can be radio remote controlled through APM and a IR trigger (i used stratosnapper)
It is a second episode of the X8 series of Summer Flights in France and will soon be continued with a third...
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The carbon plate is isolated from the frame of the craft by these silicon dampers:
http://mikrokopter.altigator.com/amortisseur-en-gel-de-silicone-ant...
In my current version, I use one of these silicon dampers per 500 grams of weight. They work under compression.
@hugues
I use those exact same style of dampners, they seem to work MUCH better for heavier cameras than the little rubber balls that people sell. Do you have rubber washers around the plate there?
Hi M, My frame is a home made one, not the 3DR one. So I do not think my setup will help you on a different setup. Anyway here is a picture of my base plate on which the gimbal is fixed:
@benybee, developers have already reached the processing power limit of APM with version 3.1 (still to be released). I am afraid we will have to wait for a future pixhawk release to get more features.
Any development about integrating pitch roll yaw of 3-axis brushless gimbal with APM? So, the APM can give a comment to point the camera to certain location..
Even if they are both charged, They are outputting the contents at different rates.
This would allow them to auto-level by one discharging into the other.
NOT GOOD.
Strange you would mix two different batteries in parallel. This is really not a good idea. You can only use batteries in parallel if they are identical, same history and all of the cells balanced. Because if you mix batteries with different history/charge levels/capacity there will be significant current flowing from the higher cells (voltage) to the lower cells and it will destroy your batteries.
Either buy one single higher capacity battery, either buy two smaller identical batteries to use in parallel. See this post for batteries discussion on my X8 : http://diydrones.com/group/arducopterusergroup/forum/topics/6s-batt...
@Jamie, do you mean your battery is flat after 5 min ? Which battery do you use, which voltage, which motors and what AUW ?
@Euan, the perfect cure is a Yaw axis (3rd axis) brushless gimbal.
Re: yaw rebound...what's the cure?
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