I finally got my screen, a word of warning avoid the free shipping from China as it took just under a month to get here. I got it from goodluck buy for just under $300 but didnt see any shipping options and got stuck with free that got here fine just very slow. Would rather have paid for DHL to get here about 3 weeks faster had I seen the option.
I have had one days test flight session with the screen and am much happier with this then my old one. It wasnt the brightest day out but I only had the brightness set at 10-15% today as it was more then enough. On my old screen 100% brightness was pretty much the same as 0% on this screen in the same light and useless with any ambient light. At 100% this gets a bit too bright and washes out the screen quite a bit though I doubt it would ever need to be so bright, on a bright day the much more power will be handy.
Here is a pic, though it looks much worse in the pic as it did, this is at the 15% brightness level with the gopro feed in cam raw PT so its going to be a little flat and low contrast anyway.
The screen comes with its own mount, which doesnt exactly fit the stock transmitter but it can still be mounted with a couple very basic mods I did. I removed one piece at the back not sure of its purpose but it really wasnt needed, also the way the screen mounts to its bracket I needed to use a couple washers in order to lift the screen high enough to get it above the IOC and Mode switches to enable me to flick them easily and give clearance.
Here is a pic of how I have mounted it with my battery cables and RX mounted to the frame. You can see on the bottom only 3 of these screws are used, there should be 4 but the phantom metal bar is narrower then most I assume and so the 4th screw hole is blocked by the bar. Its on very solid and wont move so this is fine, All up this full setup with battery weights 1568 grams fitted on the radio.
A couple more pics.
The all important disconnect RX gets pure noise no blue or black screen so its great for FPV
I needed to buy a 2.1 to 1.3mm DC power adapter in order to connect power using the cables that I got with my other monitor. This comes with a power cable and xt60 connector but my other cable had a power splitter so I could power both the RX and screen with it.
Flew 6 battery trying out FPV and had no issues at all with the video or my TX RX setup, I thought the way it shield a bit of the DJI radio antenna may cause an issue but it was fine.
Battery life I had the screen on the full time I did 6 battery flights over 1 1/12 hrs and according to my charger used 720mah out of my 2700mah battery. I used a big one thinking it may suck more power being brighter but after seeing how much it uses I will leave the bigger one for the Phantom.
