RotorPixel Gimbal Technical Discussion

I keep popping in, but more so in the other room now :)

That project looks good!
Porkys fault !! I know ya do as I watch all ! And if ya don't speak occasionally here I will put da bird on ya in P3 as ya don't forget where ya come from o_O
;)..:D
I try and read in there as much as possibly to be not to far behind when I do get one ;)
 
I have notice something off with my gimbal and can't seem to put my finger on it .
In my video's at times it looks like the camera is nodding left to right .Is not all the time but see it when going in a straight line I can see it moving back and forth . Have tried working with those knobs but have had no luck !
Anybody else seen this ?
Dirk,

I've noticed the same on mine. I contribute it to the bird making these adjustments as I only have a 2 axis gimbal. Not sure why, maybe a compass glitch?
 
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Dirk,

I've noticed the same on mine. I contribute it to the bird making these adjustments as I only have a 2 axis gimbal. Not sure why, maybe a compass glitch?
Well that's a possibility I hadn't thought of !! My compass did go out ..the V3 one and I replaced it with a regular one till the
replacement gets here and that's about the time I started really noticing it . It fly's alright but have noticed that it really didn't track
right . Not to bad but just off a little .
Will see Friday when the new one comes .
Thanks for that buddy :)
Me looking in the wrong place ! again :rolleyes:
 
Guys,

I will check mine out to see if this happens to me, but ain't been able to fly all week cos it's soooooo windy:(

Dry & sunny though...
 
^ Tell me about it. And you can be sure that when the wind drops so will the rain :(
 
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Well the compass got here early and swapped em out and no change . I have some of the black dampeners ordered but think they coming from China and no telling when they get here ! Think I will try the ear plugs inside of the white ones I read about in this thread and see if that helps ! Can't hurt huh !
 
Well the compass got here early and swapped em out and no change . I have some of the black dampeners ordered but think they coming from China and no telling when they get here ! Think I will try the ear plugs inside of the white ones I read about in this thread and see if that helps ! Can't hurt huh !

Worth a try for sure. I did see some of your footage on Photobucket, I can tell right off the bat what you are talking about. Especially the one with the classic and sports car gathering at the T intersection. That "nod" as you call it, is pretty pronounced. I am not sure stiffer dampeners will fix that. It kind of looks like a gains setting? And your upgraded compass had no effect on it. Could the bird be fighting crosswinds and correcting? To be honest, I have yet to find my ideal gain settings... I keep trying, either overcorrecting or oscillating or slow response.:(

Nice cars, BTW.:rolleyes:

I have notice something off with my gimbal and can't seem to put my finger on it .
In my video's at times it looks like the camera is nodding left to right .Is not all the time but see it when going in a straight line I can see it moving back and forth . Have tried working with those knobs but have had no luck !
Anybody else seen this ?

You are right, it is just enough to benoticed and it doesnt seem to be "just right".

P.S.: Sorry for snooping, but the video was there when I followed your crash :D
 
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Worth a try for sure. I did see some of your footage on Photobucket, I can tell right off the bat what you are talking about. Especially the one with the classic and sports car gathering at the T intersection. That "nod" as you call it, is pretty pronounced. I am not sure stiffer dampeners will fix that. It kind of looks like a gains setting? And your upgraded compass had no effect on it. Could the bird be fighting crosswinds and correcting? To be honest, I have yet to find my ideal gain settings... I keep trying, either overcorrecting or oscillating or slow response.:(

Nice cars, BTW.:rolleyes:



You are right, it is just enough to benoticed and it doesnt seem to be "just right".

P.S.: Sorry for snooping, but the video was there when I followed your crash :D
Well cool ! And I'll tell ya . Was flying at that ball and hot rods kept flying by and those stopped . I was in the edge of the woods where I could see my screen and where you see me there I couldn't and was surprised I got that . It was a rally with every kind of car from Vette's to Ferrari's and were going around the country . There was 5200 of them total . Amazing man ! Took em about all day to get through outer part of town .That's Hy 278E headed towards Birmingham . They thought the bird was cool and wanted to see the screen and did look but I could't even see it out in that sun .
On the way back to town I met what looked to be Jay Leno's garage !! Sounded like I was at a racetrack . Everybody in town knew about them coming through but me . Folks had set up and were filming them as they went by . Was cool . :D

Add/ Had ta go back and look at that and ya that's it . I was just in a hover there but I see it more when moving forward . Just like it wants to go left and right . Will cut one and post it .
 
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Worth a try for sure. I did see some of your footage on Photobucket, I can tell right off the bat what you are talking about. Especially the one with the classic and sports car gathering at the T intersection. That "nod" as you call it, is pretty pronounced. I am not sure stiffer dampeners will fix that. It kind of looks like a gains setting? And your upgraded compass had no effect on it. Could the bird be fighting crosswinds and correcting? To be honest, I have yet to find my ideal gain settings... I keep trying, either overcorrecting or oscillating or slow response.:(

Nice cars, BTW.:rolleyes:



You are right, it is just enough to benoticed and it doesnt seem to be "just right".

P.S.: Sorry for snooping, but the video was there when I followed your crash :D
Talking about gain settings ...I have never messed with those and this just started not long ago
Well cool ! And I'll tell ya . Was flying at that ball and hot rods kept flying by and those stopped . I was in the edge of the woods where I could see my screen and where you see me there I couldn't and was surprised I got that . It was a rally with every kind of car from Vette's to Ferrari's and were going around the country . There was 5200 of them total . Amazing man ! Took em about all day to get through outer part of town .That's Hy 278E headed towards Birmingham . They thought the bird was cool and wanted to see the screen and did look but I could't even see it out in that sun .
On the way back to town I met what looked to be Jay Leno's garage !! Sounded like I was at a racetrack . Everybody in town knew about them coming through but me . Folks had set up and were filming them as they went by . Was cool . :D

Add/ Had ta go back and look at that and ya that's it . I was just in a hover there but I see it more when moving forward . Just like it wants to go left and right . Will cut one and post it .
The first one I am going up and out and not fast and t second I was just in a hover pointing straight down .
I might just take it all apart and reinstall it and do all the calibrations and see if that helps !
 
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^ Tell me about it. And you can be sure that when the wind drops so will the rain :(

Your dead right.... Rain on its way, meant to be hitting us late tonight/tomorrow:eek:

Good old british weather...........:(
 
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Talking about gain settings ...I have never messed with those and this just started not long ago

The first one I am going up and out and not fast and t second I was just in a hover pointing straight down .
I might just take it all apart and reinstall it and do all the calibrations and see if that helps !

Dirk that's quite a bad twitch you have there:( I'm 99% sure mines not like that but as soon as I can fly I'll test it out.

Is that why you bought the new compass?
 
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Dirk that's quite a bad twitch you have there:( I'm 99% sure mines not like that but as soon as I can fly I'll test it out.

Is that why you bought the new compass?
Naaa I had got the other one wet and it went out on me . :( No biggie really as I had an old one to use till the new one got here !
Wish it had fixed my issue but it didn't .
 
Add/ Had ta go back and look at that and ya that's it . I was just in a hover there but I see it more when moving forward . Just like it wants to go left and right . Will cut one and post it .

Ya know, now that you mentioned it, mine is doing similar...

But I know my blades are damaged/unbalanced from some bad landings. Take a look from just a few days agowhile haying on the ranch:


I know it wasn't windy, 'cause we were sweating our a$$es off. You know, this footage looks also similar to the one @TheCif posted a short while back. I need him to look as well...
 
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I can see some at the beginning but looks to me to settle out . I bet new props might take care of that or hope it does ! I just opened and checked new ones for that clip I did . I just went in and made sure the defaults were right and seen my IOC was disabled :confused:
Don't know how that happened but fixed that and just flew again and still has some . Might go back in RC assistant and see what might have been changed but still stumped ! :mad:
 
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I can see some at the beginning but looks to me to settle out . I bet new props might take care of that or hope it does ! I just opened and checked new ones for that clip I did . I just went in and made sure the defaults were right and seen my IOC was disabled :confused:
Don't know how that happened but fixed that and just flew again and still has some . Might go back in RC assistant and see what might have been changed but still stumped ! :mad:
How do your blades look? Any chance they had any impact from any of the small crashes?
 
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How do your blades look? Any chance they had any impact from any of the small crashes?
New one bro. Just took em out of pack for that clip .
Just went back into RC assistant and saw I had a upgrade so I did to 1.0.2.31 . Now it looks like I need to do another advanced IMU cal as it wants to wonder a little when I took off . The blasted app was giving me the cog wheel screen but I went ahead and just cut on the video and flew around the yard a little . Now looking at that it seems to be back good but will have to wait till in the morning and really push it up and out to really see if I did get it right !
Again I don't know just what I did .:eek:
Will see in the morning though !!


Added/ Don't have small crash's bro ! Just good one's :D
 
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I flew my phantom for the 1st time in a couple of weeks, weather this morning was good;)

Video'd my flight & must say I've not got that twitch (shake), gonna fly again tomorrow morning, I'll test again;)

Dirk, what upgrade was it?
 
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I flew my phantom for the 1st time in a couple of weeks, weather this morning was good;)

Video'd my flight & must say I've not got that twitch (shake), gonna fly again tomorrow morning, I'll test again;)

Dirk, what upgrade was it?
Was for the TX and was 1.0.2.31
Did try it this morning but still has some and starting to think it might be a hardware issue with my motors and going ahead and putting the 2312's in this one as I did the other .
It just might be a little of all it . These motors I have now seem to want to run hotter than I have ever noticed .
 
:eek: Maybe this be my problem !! Just took this and if ya notice it don't do this constant but just at times . Like my twitch I see in the video's .
I did get these motors wet but thought they were gonna be ok . Maybe not and changing them to the 2312's anyways !
Is fine at the start and give it a little juice and then it starts then stops . Think maybe this my issue ?

 
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