Gimbal Trouble

[Angus]

Hi, I'm building a gimbal for my quad. I bought BGC 3.1 controller and connected everything up. It worked for a while and then stopped. I ordered a second which similarly worked and then broke.(On closer inspection one of the micro processors on Motor 1 output has a small hole blown out of it) Does anyone know what the problem is and or the best controller to get without spending a fortune?
Many thanks
Angus

 

[Bartman]

angus,

have you considered the Centerpiece by Phobotic? It's had some early issues but I think they're on their way to getting them worked out

it doesn't love having the landing gear attached to the camera gimbal as the Mōvi has, fwiw

 

[Angus]

Thats an amazing bit of kit but too expensive.
I am only looking for a gimbal for my GoPro.

 

[Bartman]

are the motors too small or too big for the board? is high current burning up the component or possibly a short somewhere? weird that the same thing has happened twice

 

[Angus]

I just checked out specs and wiring and it seems ok, i think it must of been a short, maybe touched something. I need to be a lot more careful when handling electronics. Thanks for your help, it will be good to see what other people choose and how it worked out for them.

 

[PeteDee]

Pretty hard to go past the Tarot gimbal setup.

 

[Bartman]

which are you talking about Pete?

any set-up issues? reliable?

 

[tstrike]

The Feiyu Tech 2 axis has been pretty reliable for me and this is from a guy who has pissed away too many hours of his life messing
with the martinez boards and the alex m boards-both the real ones and the fake ebay ones and just wanted something that smoothed out my crappy flying a bit.

The Feiyu's are plug and play with the gp3 series cameras and I think you can fit the gp4's in also.
In fact I'm fixing to buy the 3 axis version from GotHeli in the next couple days

The zen is still the king of go pro gimbals though, especially if it's paired with a dji fc. The footage always looks so perfect imo. They just get a bit pricey if you're not using the other dji hardware with it, has well as not being able to use the gimbal for anything but flying.