gimbal, which I have just fitted to the Phantom here, now

there's a few

little problems

you have to deal with when you're fitting this thing

one of them is, not really that hard, but

getting these rubber dampers and you see that

going through there. Use a piece of string

to pull, a loop of string to pull those through

..those ones there. Second problem:

the power of for the gimbal. What I did

was

I use the auxiliary power inside the Phantom

and I just took the power leads

from the gimbal here, ran them in through the top the Phantom

through the leg and solder them

onto the spare power lead

with a bit of shrink wrap over the top

then the

Control Board, connecting up the control board of the gimbal

I figured it out, you see

there's one orange wire there

you can see it

and that orange wire runs

inside and goes straight into the receiver

the Futaba receiver

I don't know what all those other

pins are for

you just need that one single wire and I figured the best way it was not to put

it on to the

the Naza - just reading what other people have done

- I just put straight onto the Futaba receiver

on channel eight - even though I've got the S-Bus connected

for the Naza, it doesn't seem to interfere with it so you put the

the pin into channel 8, then you go into this

and you

program it so that channel eight is controlled by

this knob here, which is LD, also known as the Larry David

knob. Probably "Left Dial"

so now when I plug it in and turn it, as I

will demonstrate, then LD

changes the pitch on the gimbal which I haven't tried out yet

now the third thing was

this this is my video cable

for the GoPro, and it took me

a bit of mucking around to get it to get in there

I didn't think it was gonna fit, but

a little bit work with the Dremel,

and worked. It fits. Just.

like that

so now video, that's also powering the GoPro.

Theres my battery, which I modified so that it would

fit.

then this balance lead

plugs into, there's not much room

here is there, plugs into there

and that's the power for the OSD

which also owns ends up powering the GoPro

I can run 'em all.

So if I could give you a quick demo

never forget to turn that on first!

the gimbal should come to life

takes about 10 seconds

there it is. Did you see that?

and then

Let me just get that in the picture there

and then here's the Futaba, by turning the dial

That's about it.

so yeah the

programming on the ahh

Futaba, you just go into

Link, then Function

page two

and then you assign channel eight

to LD which is written on the screen

and once you've done that, then you're up and running

and you don't use the Naza gimbal. You don't need to use the Naza gimbal

control. I've turned that off.