Tuesday, 23 February 2016

FPV Finally [BUILD]

Hi everyone, here's a little update of what I have been doing lately. Starting off with good news.  I have finally used a setup for FPV that works for me. After many failures in building a good reliable FPV setup, I have found a good setup that works incredibly well. The components that I am using right now are:


  • AOMWAY FPV 5.8G 200mW AV Transmitter Integrated 700TVL CMOS HD Camera
  • Quanum V2 FPV goggles and RC832 Vrx
  • PNP Skysurfer plane(changed to 6x5 propeller)
  • Cloverleaf antennas 
Simple FPV setup


That's it , incredibly simple, but the joy of it, is, that it works so well. I am quite pleased with the video quality, the weather was not at its best here very cloudy, but the camera is more than workable, the colours are still visible and the image is very clear. although it is a 700tvl Cmos camera, it can handle low light conditions decently. Flying is not an issue at all. Its also a very light system, 20mins fpv flights are easily achievable from a single 2200mah battery powering both the plane and the FPV setup.  I am quite pleased with that. 



Some other parts that worked but I am not using right now.

  1. Tarot300 OSD, this was used on some of my failed FPV setups, it offers enough information to help with flying FPV, it offers basic information such as Engine and video voltages and home position, speeds and altitude. which is enough to fly in my opinion and for less than €30 I think its works well.
  2. NTSC HD 700TVL Sony OSD CCD D-WDR, this is a basic board camera which cost less than €15. Came with all necessary cables and that's it. It has the option of connecting a control board to change settings, but I bought mine without it. The thing that I liked about this camera is it excellent low light video quality, and the clear image is amazing. I will use this at a later stage for sure. This was not used because of the issues I had with the Vtx I had.
Now for a low point in this, I started out using the TS832 Vtx. I don't know but I never got to use these properly, here are some issued I found on my units. To be clear, I have bought this unit 3 times from 3 different online shops. 

  • Sensitive to vibrations, for some reason these units are sensitive to vibrations from the airframe, even slight ones. I have tested these extensively, and they suffer badly from this, using multiple types of  vibration insulation and so on, at a certain point they start loosing video, which is not good. 
  • They heat up more than you think they would. I understand that these unit will heat up  when they are on. Yes I have checked for proper antenna connection and all the usual suspects, in just a minute or two of operation they become very hot. 

I am posting these because they what I have have experienced and it is frustrating, when things don't work one time after another.

One last thing, my simple Tricopter has met its end, while flying aggresively, I made the mistake of flying through the direct sunlight, at which point I overturned my tricopter into an unrecoverable fall from a good hieght, this is what I managed to scrape up. Lesson learned. Onto the next build. 

Remains of my tricotper



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