Sunday, September 27, 2009

EZ* Pod Camera

I got the camera pod for the easy star all built. It has the servos for moving the camera all installed, place for a 650mAh 3S1P lipo (for the camera/tx) and I'm trying to figure out the best routing for the servo wires, camera wires and the rx. Uggghhh, don't even want to think about how this is all going to route when I get the elogger/OSD and sensors all in there. Need some double-sided servo tape for the camera and tx and some torrid coils for the camera wires. I think I'm going to try to put the GPS rx back the very end of the tail on the top of the fuse for best reception and most distance from the 900MHz tx. I figured out a motor mount for the obliterated EZ* I have (simple 2.5" angle bracket epoxyed into the old motor pod (which should help with the heat that was building up before in the foam enclosure and allowing the motor to torque and twist and melting the plastic). The mount is also a little further up/away from the fuse and will allow me to use a 6x4E prop with plenty of clearance. Then I'll transfer everything over to the new kit I have coming once I play with it in this reglued frankenstein I have now.









Video of pan/tilt working

1 comment:

  1. I'm planning to setup the Rx as follows for control (technically, I need an 8ch for everything I want to try...sigh).

    ch1 - aileron
    ch2 - elevator (shared OSD Pro)
    ch3 - throttle
    ch4 - rudder
    ch5 - OSD Pro dedicated menu nav
    ch6 - camera pan on dial
    ch7 - camera tilt on 3-way
    ch8 - gyro control gain on/off (only have 7ch right now)

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