Joeheli said:
Hello,
I have this same gimbal but can not get mine to work. When I power it on with the battery I get a red light on the board and a red light on down by the camera where the cable plugs in. Is this normal? other than the lights. Nothing else works. I have it attached to a 3s 800 battery. Any Suggestions?
I am going to need more info to be able to help.
I dont have the Tarco/Taco Gimbal. I have one I built myself using TRD GoPro Gimbal parts and made them work for the Vision camera. By the looks of the pics mine and the Tarco/Taco gimbal is the same controller.
First I am not going to assume it is plug and play. You are going to have to set it up. So:
1. Are you sure the 3cell you are using to power it is fully charged?
2. Have you downloaded the software for the gimbal controller and calibrated it?
3. My LED on the control board is Blue, yours could be red. Cant say without having one in my hands to look at.
4. I am not sure what the second red led is that you are referring to is. Can you take a pic?
I don't know how much you know about gimbals so I am going to give you a brief explanation what is what.
You have the main control board which tells the motors how to move. It is big circuit board attached to the mount. There should be a small circuit board that attaches to the camera by the pictures I believe this is built into the gimbal plug that plugs into the back of the camera. Although I could be totally wrong on that, doesn't look like enough wires. This is the IMU which actually means it is the "sensor board". It senses where the camera is, how its moving and tells the control board, which then moves the motors to maintain position. Mine is a separate board and is attached to the top of the camera. Orientation of this is very important and once set up can't be rotated. Once it is positioned it you must calibrate it via the gimbal software. Calibration sets the home position so it knows what level is. Any commands we give it to move ads or subtracts from that home position. So a good calibration is important. Then after powering up you have to give the gimbal time to initialize so it can find that Level Home position you set during calibration. Hopefully the manufacturer set some basic gain setting for the vision camera. If not you are going to have to play with them to get them right. Weight and balance is important as well. You may have to move the camera forward or backwards slightly to get it right. With no power applied the camera should sit at any angle you put it with out moving. If all is right it should take very little effort for the motors to move the camera. If it is out of balance the motors will always be trying to keep the camera in proper position, wasting energy and causing the image to not be stable.
