Unboxing of the new boy in town.Sony 800 TVL CCD FPV Effio-V 960H Ultra WDR Boar

[mark1975]

Received a brand new board cam new to the market kindly sent from www.tecnic.co.uk to review,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14rrvY333Tc

for more info head over to.

http://www.tecnic.co.uk/Sony-800-TVL-CCD-FPV-Effio-V-960H-Ultra-WDR-Board-Camera-with-OSD.html

[Tecnic]

Hi Mark
Aparently I have "exceeded the maximum of 8 personal messages per hour" DOH !
Talk when I can
Nice unboxing video
Still testing mine out, right now I have it in a warm place permanently on to test for overheating, endurance etc

[Martink1974]

Might be worth seeing what the lowest voltage it will run off also as maybe heat is just from voltage regs . Old sony I had was 12v but ran fine off 6v

[Martink1974]

Do a comparison video mark put a seawolf and 960h side by side on ya ts2 with a cam switch , wanna see a cloud bursting comparison vid

[Tecnic]

I think the low voltage needs to be tested, I'll run it again but I suspect that it doesn't like less than 10.5 volts, I don't have a variable PSU though
Mark is having trouble getting the Archos to recognise the video feed, I've been using my 2ch DVR and my Canon camcorder which are both fine, I'd like to see if Mark can get it to brod/ady to test on their Archos devices, I once had a similar issue using a USB capture device and it was down to the device requiring a video gain withing certain limits to recognise it and display it

Further testing needed like I've said all along really and before it goes on sale my end, really glad I happened to send one to Mark as not many people have an Archos in the larger scheme of things

[Martink1974]

Is this direct to archos , do they default to NTSC by any chance ,check in menu mark , on plane the pic will get put back together by the reciever , I use arch 604 and I've never had a problem not accepting feed, will check when mine get here , if it is video range he may be able to fix with a resister

[mark1975]

Getting the feed direct to goggles martin its just the archos cant see it it does flicker on a little when it does its black and white. But its off more than on .

[mark1975]

OK just done another test to see if I can change the  settings in the camera settings doesn't have the option so I went into the archos settings and changed it to NTSC us but no joy still can't show a image the image appears briefly for barely a second and then its b&w

[MrBen]

what happens when you go through the video splitter within your AV box?

Tecnic I think the archos is more popular than you think, a lot of fpvers use them for ground station recording.

[mark1975]

already tried it ben still no joy forgot I have that monitor I used to use ill hook it up tonite and if I can get a picture ill film  it

[mark1975]

OK just done a quick test before I head off to work it works on my 10 inch screen displays fine so the issue ATM is with my archos .

[Tecnic]

Great stuff guys, well done, I may have to try to find a used Archos 700 so I can test cameras and see what can be done to solve this one

[Martink1974]

when mine get here I can test how many volts peak to peak the signal is , then prolly wont be hard to correct

[Tecnic]

OK guys another update
It seems my last post got lost in the server move, so here's some more up to date info....

After finding that with the 800tvl CCD cam I couldn't get a satelite lock, I switched over to the live GoPro feed and got instant lock
Back at base I untangled all the wiring in particular making sure the camera feed and gps cables were seperate from all else
Tested again and same result, no satelite until I unplugged the camera
I've never had this issue before, I have used Cyclops stuff in plenty of other planes, no trouble, so I decided to try my CMOS 800tvl camera instead of the CCD cam, same result, no satelites, very odd, so then I unfix the GPS antenna and move it as far away as the cable will allow and I get full satelites on any camera, a bit puzzling as this very plane had previously had a Cyclops Nova on board with no trouble, I have another plane with a Cyclops storm and similar GPS antenna seperation and no trouble there
I'm now wondering if they've changed the GPS unit to something that is more vulnerable to RFI ?
This would probably be the case as the 800tvl CCD camera works fine on my APM quadcopter where the GPS is inches from the camera

Anyway the good news is that it's not the camera though it was interesting to see that these cams can put out a signal strong enough to mess up a poorly sheilded GPS antenna

Next issue is the Archos, I eagerly await the test results from you guys

[Tecnic]

Hi Mark
Any news on testing the camera with a different Archos/DVR ?