Questions about the CineStar 3-Axis Camera Gimbal

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Brian Iannone

I'm new. *Really* new...
I'm completely new to all things related to multi-rotor copters and have a few questions about CineStar's 3-Axis Camera Gimbal. (Why does this feel like déjà vu...?) I plan on using this gimbal with a CineStar 8 and a WooKong-M system and have two questions...

1. After reading product descriptions and manuals, I keep seeing references to the flight control system needing to be connected to the gimbal. Is this correct, and if so, how do I connect the WooKong-M system, with support for only a 2-axis gimbal, to the CS 3-Axis gimbal?

2. I would like to use FreeFly Radian Stabilization Modules. Does this change anything to question #1 above or is it a completely unrelated/separate system?

Any help is greatly appreciated! :)
 

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Sebas600

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If you use radian you will not use the wkm.
the wkm doesn't support 3 axis gimbal except the zenmuse
picloc is cheaper than radian
 


Adidas4274

Adidas4274

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the WKM 2 axis gimbal stabilization sucks anyways.... no control over servo acceleration instead they tied it to the basic gain settings (stupid).... and even with the new gimbal firmware there is still a twitch in the servo outputs that is tied to the GPS unit.

There is some buffering issue with the WKM and DJI has acknowledged it privately and said that it would need a new firmware of the GPS unit to fix and that is not possible. It is possible the new WKMs dont have the issue, but DJI has never publicly addressed the issue.

I can show you the twitch in almost every RAW video I have seen that the gimbal stabilization of the WKM is used.... The funny thing is.... the NAZA has a new firmware released last night that give it the same gimbal features as the WKM and the new Naza GPS unit does not have the same affect on the gimbal twitch (from my limited testing of it so far)

So for gimbal stabilization, speed of GPS lock and cost the NAZA is kicking the WKM's butt!

Right now the HoverFly gimbal controller only really works well for 2 axis stabilization ( i own one), the Skyline has jitter issues that just wont go away....... and the FreeFly system is really expensive....

There is a new picloc rev of the hardware which might get rid of some of the problems they were having with 3 axis stabilization....




It should tell you something that the Zen15 has its own IMU for stabilization and does not use the WKM for 3 axis stabilization....
 

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chevota

Member
Adidas4274 said:
the WKM 2 axis gimbal stabilization sucks anyways.... no control over servo acceleration instead they tied it to the basic gain settings (stupid).... and even with the new gimbal firmware there is still a twitch in the servo outputs that is tied to the GPS unit.

There is some buffering issue with the WKM and DJI has acknowledged it privately and said that it would need a new firmware of the GPS unit to fix and that is not possible. It is possible the new WKMs dont have the issue, but DJI has never publicly addressed the issue.

I can show you the twitch in almost every RAW video I have seen that the gimbal stabilization of the WKM is used.... The funny thing is.... the NAZA has a new firmware released last night that give it the same gimbal features as the WKM and the new Naza GPS unit does not have the same affect on the gimbal twitch (from my limited testing of it so far)

So for gimbal stabilization, speed of GPS lock and cost the NAZA is kicking the WKM's butt!

Right now the HoverFly gimbal controller only really works well for 2 axis stabilization ( i own one), the Skyline has jitter issues that just wont go away....... and the FreeFly system is really expensive....

There is a new picloc rev of the hardware which might get rid of some of the problems they were having with 3 axis stabilization....




It should tell you something that the Zen15 has its own IMU for stabilization and does not use the WKM for 3 axis stabilization....
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yay.
 

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