lørdag 23. januar 2010

Modification of video glasses.

I had problems with video glasses last weekend when I flew.
The picture fell out several times, and finally was completely black. Fortunately I had with me several spotters, in addition to the extra passenger monitors connected.
Since I already had the error on the glasses I chosed to modify the glasses same way as Dadde at www.rcexplorer.com had done.

Glasses were dismantled, the power box was dismantled, and all connecting plugs removed. I soldered servo cables between the glasses and the power box, and soldered a simple video cable from the glasses to a female RCA jack. Previously the video signal passed through the power box, via several connectors and thin cables, it's okay to get rid of all those.

To make the glasses would sit better fixed on the head, and to avoid having a hat down over my face to shield from daylight, the glasses were spectacles mounted inside some slalom-glasses.
This looks very good so far! Looking forward to testfly the solution.

torsdag 7. januar 2010

Pictures...

I have tested the plane a bit.

Autopilot modes do not work satisfactory yet, but expect to have to wait until nearer the summer when it becomes lighter and warmer outside.

I still had some great flights, including this one with lots of gliding:
Gliding video

Since last I have installed Y-thermophile.
RVOSD use this to see what is up or down on the plane. This prevents auto-pilot to try to fly upside down.

There are some settings on RVOSD to get everything to work correctly, and I feel like I might have needed an English to Norwegian dictionary for some of the parameters of the menu.
It could also be that I'm not so good at plain terminology. :O)

I post some pictures I have taken since last time, and in addition, some of which I will use the rangevideo forum.