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Yes, that is the RC Carbon landing gear and GoPro mount. Fairly light and the quad doesn't seem to have any problem lifting it, only thing I don't like is the servos that come on it, they're quite notchy and don't seem to have very fine resolution, it makes the video jump whenever they move. I...

Yes, the voltage monitoring and failsafe work exactly as they describe in the manual. I have one nit to pick with it though, whatever voltage drop you set for level 1 carries over to level 2, I really would like to be able to set different values for each so it doesn't drain the pack quite so...

That's quite the erector set they've assembled there, looks like an MK electronics stack which makes me wonder why it didn't look particularly stable in flight. Maybe the pilot wasn't all that good or having that much weight swinging around down low could throw any F/C out of whack I suppose...

As promised, a pic of my workshop...;) This one's for you Dave... Ken

The latest addition to the fleet, much smaller than the hex with AV130 mount and also better in the wind, I'll have some video I did with it today up on Youtube tomorrow... Ken

I just built a WKM Quad based on MK Octo center plates with standard Hexa arms, works out to about 580mm motor to motor. I'm using 4 Flycam 925kv motors with Graupner 10 x 5 props on a single 4S 5000 battery. Underneath I have a set of Coptersky 210 landing gear with their GoPro 2 axis mount...

No preferred vendor at the moment, the first one I got through Quadrocopter, the second one I got direct from Photohigher. You might want to consider DJI USA, they are the original DJI dealer for the US and they also carry the Photohigher mounts so you can have one stop shopping. If you just...

Just did an 8 minute flight in daylight, flys good but have a couple things that need to be worked on. The servos that came with the GoPro 2 axis mount are crap, their motion is very notchy and with direct linkage to the platform it makes the video very jumpy. I'll have to dig aorund in the...

The camera mount is being controlled by the WKM controller and power to the servos comes from a CC BEC Pro. Ken

WKM controller #2 arrived today and this evening it replaced the MK stack on a small quad that now has tall landing gear and a two axis GoPro only mount under it. The quad frame is/was my testbed for trying out different flight control boards, the Mk stack that was on it was connected through an...

In my day job I work from my house so I have a good size office at the back of the house on the basement level. One end of it has my desk with all my computers and the other end is my "workshop" for multirotors and helis although its getting a bit crowded in the work area now with 8 multis and...

Yes, it has. Quite a few things have changed over the last month or so since I got the WKM controller actually. After getting one of the newest Photohigher AV130 and using it on both my Droidworx AD6 and the WKM hex I have to say the latest version is the best camera mount currently on the...

The ones I have came already installed on the AV130 mount. The tilt axis pot is much smaller than the roll in part because it doesn't need to be able to rotate more than 1 turn and not even that much in practice. The roll axis is a 10 turn pot because the servo needs to do many revolutions to...

No, the pot is too fragile and the shaft is too small to reliably attach it to an axle on the camera mount. I recently replaced one of the Hyperions on my old AV130 and from experience I know reusing the internal pot externally would be more trouble than its worth. Much easier to go to the local...

My point is the bigger lens on the Nex puts the focal point farther out than any part of the frame on the average size hex, even when I have the 16mm wide angle lens on it still focuses out beyond the frame perimeter. With a GoPro the focal point of the lens is pretty much right in front of it...

With the Nex series of cameras the focal length is well beyond any piece of the frame, I'm not anywhere close to seeing any part of the hex with the AV130 positioned at the center of the gear rails. With most cameras that use interchangeable lenses it's never going to be a problem unless you...

I don't know of anyone delaying a build to wait for the DJI ESC's. Chances are they're just going to be a repackaging of someone else's hardware anyway maybe with custom firmware to eliminate the throttle filtering found in 99.9% of the standard PWM ESC's. The Turnigy Plush and derivatives...

Can it be done? Yes. Has it been done? Not successfully that I know of. I've been contemplating trying it on my Droidworx AD6 once WKM #2 gets here but I just can't get past the idea of stripping down a perfectly good working MK Hexa just to try it. The setup is actually pretty simple, two...

The GPS pod is right at the top of the frame it's about 5 inches from the top plate to where the pod sits. DJI supplies three different lengths of support shaft, this is the longest the goal being to get the GPS as far away from the rest of the electronics as possible. Out in the open field I...

Thanks, it's taken a long time and far too much $ to get to this point, feels good when it all works finally. This is what I used... Not ideal conditions, windy and for quite a bit of it I was either flying in the ground effect from the props or fighting a headwind trying to keep the hex...