Haha.
yea well the whole story is I had about 150 flights on my quav540g and did a couple jobs this year, but really lacked a decent quality still pic with a go pro 3+ it doesn't cut the mustard. It doesn't like low light and in bright days I had to use a filter on the camera to keep the washout to a minimum. Otherwise the Zen on it produced some amazing video that would be hard to beat on any platform for smoothness.
I'll fill in the location in the United States, South Dakota. I know Ziggy has been gone on some buisness, but I am on a new ship and it seems no one at the helm?
I did learn a little from several people and am down to a couple items left:
I purchased an alpha6000 with my partner who also bought one. He bought a Snapper, and I bought a Gentles controller. He spent 90 some. I spent like 160. I found that the MK does not have a analog out aka. Aux2, aux3 port to make the analog work on the zoom like I had hoped. I found two options one is a duel shooter, and the other is single shooter with another RX on the bottom to bind to. This will transmit the analog yellow wire position over for the camera. Discret I/o on the Gentles will give you a zoom to the end one way or another, but will give you zoom. Any other ideas in this thought process? I did contact MK.us and MK.de Us is Mia, and DE no response...none...worries me...since they portray advertising using zoom. Maybe they use a lanc controller, but a sony camera cannot use this. Its not on Wiki either.
Secondly I find that powering the converter for the camera from digital to analog through the same power that the gimble use using is a bad idea. When setup on the bench I find that it works great. Up and down no problem. If I pick up the octo and move it around as though its flying in wind the FPV goes black and re-boots on the camera. Not a great thing in the air and especially over water like Falls park in sioux falls I shot. I pulled the camera and wiggled every wire for loosnes. Then I found giving the pitch servo alone pulled the current of the Recon's over the edge. After talking with the guy I bought it from said the recons where not for a lot of current. I looked up the converter spec and it was 200ma. So the head room in the electrical system and these particular servos (savox) seems to be right at the near max. Short term power through battery and use a regulator to 5vdc. Long term I purchased a gimble. That would have been a question for a couple days ago. Thought I would share.
So right now I am looking for a 90 degree USB micro. I think I found one after a couple google searches.
Still looking for the Rods on the landing gear. Anyone?
More than anything I want support. I think as a customer we are entitled to it and a representative that does this. Having a Logo600 vbar I enjoyed the German engineering with Readyheli's support when I flew them. Call and boom parts arrive. While this mentality may be a pipe dream I would expect a figurehead that does not lead one to go on mass google searches for parts and support.
Thanks.
-Cody
. The craft you just purchased, as a beginner, is pretty serious. Maybe you have experience flying smaller, practice MRs?