RE: Fixing focus on newest flycamone2's?
Thanks for the great info I think I'll try to get some use from the cam before I mess with it
Posted on: 6/1/2009 1:42 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Aerial Photography and Video"
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RE: Vibration
Hi Its been mentioned before but I had the same problem and took me a while to see the cause....it was so bad, i thought i had a bent inner shaft but i took the blades off and ran it and saw no vibration so I knew the cause was something in the blades. Turned out the linkages from one of the blades to the swash, which used a piece of plastic with 2 loops on the ends to slide over the ball of the swash and the other end to the blades was the cause. The linkage was slowly sliding over the ball and wasn't free to move in the space past the ball so though it "looked" like everything was as it should be, it really wasn't and making sure the linkage was completely over the ball was the fix. Point is, it doesn't take much to cause vibration but you can narrow down the problem if you can't see any problems visually. Take the blades off the main shaft (easy) so all that spins is this shaft...not just the blades...take the screws out that hold the entire blade assembly...its usually just 2 screws...spin the motor up and see if the vibes disappear and go from there
Posted on: 5/31/2009 3:53 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Esky Helicopters"
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RE: V4 Alum upgrade swash..will solder stick?
Thanks for the input :) I guess I need to go to a hardware store and look for this "extractor bit"...trying to figure out how this thing would work :) I guess somehow it must grab the innards of the screw to gain grip to reverse it back out
Posted on: 5/31/2009 3:41 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Esky Helicopters"
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V4 Alum upgrade swash..will solder stick?
for any help FoxK
Posted on: 5/30/2009 10:45 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Esky Helicopters"
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RE: Fixing focus on newest flycamone2's?
Would be great when u have time :)
Posted on: 5/25/2009 6:14 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Aerial Photography and Video"
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Fixing focus on newest flycamone2's?
Was wondering if its worth the effort? I flew my heli (or any heli for that matter) for the first time and recorded it with a new flycamone2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Awe1BBnHiQ The focus, if you ask me looks a little soft. I've heard of many folks fixing it by taking the case apart (easy) and rotating the lens to a better position but I have a new flycam with the °90 rotating lens head so in reality, its not part of the case, being connected to the case's innards via wire. I'd need to open up the lens head but it doesn't look so easy. Anyone have any pointers? Thanks Fox Keri
Posted on: 5/24/2009 3:47 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Aerial Photography and Video"
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RE: totally new to this help
Hi Baker. Hope I understand your question right, but it sounds like your unsure what wires are for what control...but once you find that say, the wire I have in my hand is for the main rotor etc, you'll know where it goes etc. I guess you could remove the canopy and trace the wires to the system it connects to and then use the manual to see what it is and then plug it to the appropriate channel. Once you have a channel for all your wires, you can pretty much hold the skids in your hands and turn everything on and see if the input you add from your tx is correct. You can add sufficient power to allow you to see that a controller is pushing the copter right/left/up/down etc just by holding the skids Good luck!
Posted on: 5/24/2009 3:29 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "RC Helicopter Beginners Forum"
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RE: 2.4 wireless camera from nitroplanes.com
I had trouble understanding this myself. Our video cams would have to have some sort of reciever to be able to do this but it looks like the units RCVR does this and uses the cam's LCD as a display which looks like is what you did (attached rcvr to cam). Did you ever have any luck getting it to work? If not, someone really needs to make a list of compatible cams etc
Posted on: 5/24/2009 3:18 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Aerial Photography and Video"
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RE: 2.4 wireless camera from nitroplanes.com
dbl post
Posted on: 5/24/2009 3:17 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Aerial Photography and Video"
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RE: Flycamone 2 issue
Also...you wrote PR (delete) ......i think that mode is for taking a still image when button 2 is pushed. Delete is Dl or someting. I just download the recording to my desktop and before the next session, i use my puter to delete the material. In the field, i would guess you need to hit Dl to eliminate the last recorded image/movie
Posted on: 5/24/2009 3:08 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Aerial Photography and Video"
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First RC unit..still alive or DOA?
Just kinda curious as to who has or has not destroyed the first helo or plane they bought :)
Posted on: 5/24/2009 2:56 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "RC Helicopter Beginners Forum"
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RE: Control With A Joystick??
You guys should have more faith :) I already control my telescope, my electronic mount that inputs directions in which to point it, and all my imaging cameras attached to it all controlled remotely from my desktop computer. The thing is, one just has to make the software and hardware to make it happen and the private user market prolly is pretty small. The other thing is the communication. For my scope I use bluetooth and the range on that is really limited so not practical with RC stuff. Think of it...one could already theoretically hook up a webcam to a helo and fly, but it would be hard cuzza the darn usb connection to your laptop lol...but the point is, there is the cam but also the software to manage the imaging so space and weight would be added to the RC craft for this software to manage the imaging and also more stuff to transmit it to a computer. I believe there already is this for ROV's but of course, its expense makes it limited to extreme devotees. I'm sure soon this will all be possible. What we need is a cam with something like bluetooth but with a far greater range....so the software could be kept on the puter.....also, bluetooth doesn't really have a great transfer rate of information. It has trouble sending images with my scope over 20 FPS....its just too much data even with a 640x480 image. Asking a program to just send controller input might be less of a prob however....but won't it be great someday? I think it will open up a whole new aspect of the hobby.... Imagine this...2 biplanes with all this theoretical equipment...attach the new acme IR sensors to the planes and dogfight with the "guns" shooting little low range IR lights and they hit the enemies sensors and score a "hit". I used to fly online combat using the game IL2 Sturmovik and its pretty intense and actually a good training tool for real combat....so doing it outside of virtual reality would be super!..especially with a widefield cam looking foward. One last note....Rafael, I see what he's essentially getting at. Having the ability to do away with a tiny setup for flying would make flying easier IMHO. I even have rudders used by my feet to control my rudders online etc and a distinct and seperate throttle with MUCH greater sensitivity and range than any controller i've used in RC. Add to that the elimination of having to reverse your inputs when the plane's coming at you vs away sure simplifies things as one would always have a first person view forward. For me, that's the hardest thing to get over...untraining my 25 yr habit of turning a stick left to go left when the plane turns towards me :) EDIT I was looking at something like this and this looks intriguing: http://www.nitroplanes.com/4ch24ghzmiwi.html I wonder if anyone has one and can report their findings. It doesn't solve ALL of the OP's problems but I'd like to eventually use a FPV cam and a joystick setup myself someday and some of the roadblocks look already to have solutions
Posted on: 5/24/2009 2:47 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "RC Helicopter Beginners Forum"
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RE: beginner looking for RC helo
Sorry....i re-read your post and saw you weren't interested in co-axial. My bad
Posted on: 5/24/2009 10:07 AM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "RC Helicopter Beginners Forum"
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RE: Any how-to's on adding servos and setup?
Thanks for all the help...got it and velcroed it to my battery pack today. Only flown a helo twice so i did a bunnyhop flight. The turns etc were accidental lol...had a great landing though...despite some panic just before as it was sinking like a rock. 4MB video here :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Awe1BBnHiQ
Posted on: 5/23/2009 7:21 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Beginners"
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New to heli's? One simple tip b4 first flight
Hi all Brand new to heli's here, but not noing the ins and outs of balancing my setup etc, I learned to hover with the heli as it was set up from the box. Holding it in my hand and running the motor at low RPM (admit it...we all start this way :) ) I did notice it vibrated alot but thought.."hey...lots of moving parts...its likely to vibrate some". Turns out I prolly made learning to hover more difficult than it needed to be. While reading the instructions, I noticed a section on balancing the blades (I have a lama IV, 4 CH heli). I decided since it was raining to see how mine were and put some white paint on the tips. Looking for behind, I could see one of the blades was spinning higher than the other. I see alotta folks white tipping both blades, but i took the paint off one so I could see which blade was spinning higher. I then followed the directions and made the higher blade have a lower angle of attack...in my heli, with plastic blades, this just entailed twisting the blade with the too high AoA downward, and the low blade up a bit. After that, I eliminated almost all vibration...i mean, it really made a big difference. Before I did this routine, my copter would lift off but would slide quite a ways before the copter would balance itself. I think it may have been caused by this inbalance so I hope now, when the weather clears, that the copter will take off with less movement and hopefully head more straight up instead of trying to balance it taking off and being ready to correct for other movement. Read the manual regarding this balancing. It may really make things alot easier so start those blades a'spinning and look even with the rotation of the blades at the edges. If all you see is .... then the blades are ok but if you see this: .... .... (the edge of the blades on 2 distinct paths), then one blade has a too high AoA and should be adjusted. Hope this helps someone! Have fun!
Posted on: 5/23/2009 5:05 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "RC Helicopter Beginners Forum"
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RE: beginner looking for RC helo
I agree with jab....I think some of these recommendations are 1) Over $100 so after replacement parts for damage which will happen with a first time heli flier, it can get expensive.....and 2) 6 channels is just more controls to have to manage. Believe me, a 4 CH chopper means you have to manage throttle, pointing the chopper, sliding left/right and moving forward/backward. Any more than that is just too much to manage if you're new IMHO. I am learning too and got a Lama Co-axial V4 4CH chopper and so far, have only busted 1 set of blades in training so I recommend this type chopper or similar
Posted on: 5/23/2009 2:07 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "RC Helicopter Beginners Forum"
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RE: FlyCamOne2 my recording are all colored lines
Thanks Joe...glad you fixed it.... I fixed mine too but have the 4.01 update. Here was my prob. Its almost impossible to tell....but there's even different forms of this latest update (4.01) One needs to look at the logo behind the camera head. One cam has writing only, one has a sorta tower looking logo. Mine had the tower logo pictograph so I used an update here: http://www.flycamone2.com/index.php?id=50&L=3 and d/l'ed a file a ways down called V 4.01 (8) - 12.01.09 and all's well now Downloading from any other of their sites, or any other form of 4.01 did not work and MAY make the cam unuseable so make sure anyone updating gets the right form of 4.01. Going to their site in AUstralia for instance made no mention of the 2 versions of 4.01 so perhaps Non-US versions have a specific update. I had to go right to the German site and hit the English flag to get it in english where I found my solution. If I were you...if U got it working...leave it alone hehe :)
Posted on: 5/22/2009 12:55 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Aerial Photography and Video"
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RE: flycamone2 3 seconds of recording?
Same here....colored lines and a useless cam :( I'm pretty sure its the device driver as the cam is listed as a mass storage device now instead of the cam it used to be listed as. The driver they supply is an .exe so you can't point the device to use the correct driver....i'be been trying for 3 hrs :(
Posted on: 5/22/2009 2:42 AM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Aerial Photography and Video"
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RE: FlyCamOne2 my recording are all colored lines
I just bought on today and I get the same exact thing..unuseable. Happened after updating the firmware :(
Posted on: 5/22/2009 1:51 AM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Aerial Photography and Video"
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RE: New to RCU here..hi..Is my battery dead in my new RC plane?
He just contacted me and sent a new charger....in return for good service, I bought a second plane. Good service can pay off in the long run :)
Posted on: 5/20/2009 9:00 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "NitroModels Support"
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RE: New to RCU here..hi..Is my battery dead in my new RC plane?
Frustrated...emailed and PM'd nitroplanes folks...no responses...plane still sitting unuseable for over a week now :(
Posted on: 5/19/2009 9:09 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "NitroModels Support"
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RE: Remember gas planes w/ lines attached to wrist cntrl'r?
Good input from everyone..thanks for responding. It was really alotta fun and the fact that I still remember flying it is testimony to that...some 30+ years ago. Was a good training too for showing how flying can respond to subtle changes in input, can be a somewhat useful trainer for landings and flaring and most of all...a good knuckle buster to train you to avoid the prop :)
Posted on: 5/19/2009 10:21 AM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: Totally new to the hobby
Hi I'll add my 2 cents...and agree with everyone here. You sound like your pretty sure you'll be into the hobby, like I was so I went and bought a trainer type plane http://www.nitroplanes.com/slopediverrtf.html Even with this plane, i'm taking a little risk. the location of the prop means its prolly gonna be destroyed but I hope the little experience I have will avoid this. For a total novice, I've heard good things about, and recommend this: http://www.nitroplanes.com/rtfwiha54el3.html Its UGLY but the high location of the prop will prolly save you lots of jing and its price is right till you get some flight hours. Trust me, even a garbage can cover with a prop will be fun once its flying so you won't care what it looks like when you get it flying. I hope to get over to my local RC club ASAP as well. A smart buy and good use of your local club will all translate into less money spent, less error and to be honest, more fun. Good luck!
Posted on: 5/17/2009 12:31 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Beginners"
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Remember gas planes w/ lines attached to wrist cntrl'r?
Hi... Little bit of nostalgia here with my first dabble into model plane flying lol. My first one was a P40 gas power plane about 1 foot long :) It had a controller that looked like brass knuckles that had 2 lines that attached to the wing and on to the elevators...the definition of simplicity :) Tilt the top of the "brass knuckler" towards you, and the plane zoomed up.....away from you and it went down. Of course for 5-10 minutes, you had to stand there and spin in circles. Anyone remember those days? I've also come to the conclusion that i'm a hobbiholic...as in Astronomy, I where i planned on spending $500 USD on equipment and ending up with over $3000 worth I am following the same trail in RC lol....originally spent $200 two weeks ago on an EDF jet, withing 10 days I got a heli and a prop soarer plane on top of that lol...
Posted on: 5/17/2009 12:19 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Beginners"
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New to RCU here..hi..Is my battery dead in my new RC plane?
Hi all.....newbie to the group here so first of all hi! Secondly, I just purchased a new U.S. Air Force F-16 "Fighting Falcon" 64mm EDF Electric Ducted Fan RC Jet RTF w/ Brushless Motor+ESC+LiPo plane from nitroplanes but I'm concerned about my battery. Of course while completing the setup of the plane, inserting the battery etc, I fired it up to check the control surfaces, engine etc. Over the next day or so, i was occasionally turning it on just to marvel at the flaps working, the engine sound etc and even took it out on its maiden flight in which I lawn darted it and broke it in half :( It was a clean break and easily repaired but being a hand launched plane with no wheels, I think i may try to let it skid on the grass on take off next time...anyway, with this use, I would think that ther battery would need to be "topped off" but i'm not sure how the new batteries work. I hook it up to my emergency car starter battery and the green light comes on for a few seconds, then fades out to no lights on at all. The plane I have is here: http://www.nitroplanes.com/f-16-edf-rc-jet.html Could someone take a quick look and let me know if I may have a bad battery?....Shouldn't the red light come on now that I have run the engine for a bit etc until its full again? Thanks for any help you can give me....lesson learned BTW....the jump from durable plastic planes to foam EDF jets is HUGE lol...I may have to put this away for a while till I get used to a similar, yet less expensive plane and wreck that instead :( Thanks all! edit: looks like I have a bad recharger...it indicated a full charge but it lies...no current is leaving the charger to the batteries...hence severe lack of thrust at maiden flight and crash :(
Posted on: 5/16/2009 3:16 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "NitroModels Support"
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RE: Any how-to's on adding servos and setup?
Think I got some spares around...does it use the little tiny card that comes with the larger quarter size ones
Posted on: 5/16/2009 3:11 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: Any how-to's on adding servos and setup?
I ended up with the flycamone2 and got it for $79 at hobby-lobby. Picked up a copter too while I was there...a lama v4 so that should be fun
Posted on: 5/16/2009 9:41 AM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: Any how-to's on adding servos and setup?
Gotcha. Might work out ok.....have the centered position pointing the camera to a good default position and use the controller to look left and right, or up and down for short periods.
Posted on: 5/15/2009 4:25 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: Any how-to's on adding servos and setup?
Understood....in the meanwhile, could it be used to move a cam on 1 axis (ie looking forward to looking down and all pts in between)? i currently have a 4-channel TX used with an EDF jet with Aelerons, throttle and elevators so I'm guessing there's room for one more servo?
Posted on: 5/15/2009 4:20 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Beginners"
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RE: Any how-to's on adding servos and setup?
I think i got some understanding now about adding servos etc. I looked at my rcvr in my plane and i'm guessing its that unit that decides what inputs from the tx go to what servos. Looking inside, it looks like my rcvr has a set of pins open for a servo so that looks promising. I may just get the cam for now and worry about that later. Thanks again!
Posted on: 5/15/2009 3:17 PM by Author "FoxK" in the forum "Beginners"
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