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Evening all, I did a search but couldn't find this mod elsewhere? by all means delete this post if it's been done before!!.
Anyway, I've been wanting to get the straight down view without shelling out on the 3rd party gimbals just yet, I also wanted to see if it was possible and now i'm just wondering why DJI didn't do it right from the off!! . When messing about with my FC200 camera servo I noticed it has the ability to travel a lot further than the plastic shell allows. this could only lead to one thing... an afternoon off work and and angle grinder!!... it took all of 1 hour and the result is a camera that can go from horizontal to pointing straight down using the camera tilt in the DJI app!!.
1- remove camera
2- dremel away the back side two tabs of the camera
3- remove the X plastic that houses the servo and dremel out the back side
4- remove the gimbal mount thing thats attached to the Phantom shell
5- flip this upside down and then reattach to the Phantom
6- put the anti jello things back in
7- remount the camera making sure to attached on the right notches so get bet best travel back and forth
8- adjust servo setting in RC assistant to suit . mine are 1000 / -900 / -1000
it's all working perfectly, I just haven't had chance to send it out and record flight video as its raining and too windy! i'm just trying to work out how to make the photos smaller so i can upload them.
in the meantime here's a video filmed with a potato.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2zBIO ... e=youtu.be
heres a short sample of the video from the cam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uHhFeWlgpI
Anyway, I've been wanting to get the straight down view without shelling out on the 3rd party gimbals just yet, I also wanted to see if it was possible and now i'm just wondering why DJI didn't do it right from the off!! . When messing about with my FC200 camera servo I noticed it has the ability to travel a lot further than the plastic shell allows. this could only lead to one thing... an afternoon off work and and angle grinder!!... it took all of 1 hour and the result is a camera that can go from horizontal to pointing straight down using the camera tilt in the DJI app!!.
1- remove camera
2- dremel away the back side two tabs of the camera
3- remove the X plastic that houses the servo and dremel out the back side
4- remove the gimbal mount thing thats attached to the Phantom shell
5- flip this upside down and then reattach to the Phantom
6- put the anti jello things back in
7- remount the camera making sure to attached on the right notches so get bet best travel back and forth
8- adjust servo setting in RC assistant to suit . mine are 1000 / -900 / -1000
it's all working perfectly, I just haven't had chance to send it out and record flight video as its raining and too windy! i'm just trying to work out how to make the photos smaller so i can upload them.
in the meantime here's a video filmed with a potato.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y2zBIO ... e=youtu.be
heres a short sample of the video from the cam.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uHhFeWlgpI