idea's for a aerial rig

[mark1975]

Hi chaps, im after ideas for rtf quadcopter to take video using a  gymbal I was looking at attaching a gimbal to the front of my disco before all the tbs haters step forward ive changed my mind on that idea. Anyone know of the best all round package quad controller gimbal etc rtf it is to be used just for this type of footage its a side of the hobby im doing more more of.   was also looking at qa400 with gimbal trying to keep it below £400.00 cost though any thoughts etc?

[Cobs]

My Phantom 1 with gimbal onboard = 5mins flight time, without = 11mins (summer using a 2900 3s)

The Phantom 2 gets around 25 mins without, im unsure with but i would expect it to be around half of that.

Something like my Pro-X is probably the way forward if flight times matter

[mark1975]

seen a lot of new ones entering the market like quatum venture etc
just trying to gather some info etc but its an option to rob so cheers

[Cobs]

Yeh im not up to date on new ones nor prices Mark - would expect the prices of the older ones to drop tho.

[MrBen]

if you want RTF its gonna be hard to beat a phantom with the official 3axis gopro gimbal

[mark1975]

phantom vision plus vs phantom and zemuse ??

[mark1975]

ben you stil use your qav400 with the snap on gimbal?

[Martink1974]

first  thing id do mark is put a 300g weight on disco and see what flight times you get , I got a tarox gimble cheap from hk that works realy well for the money with a gp3 see if its feasible

what size props do you run on disco currently ?

how many cells ?

[mark1975]

hi martin 10 inch gemfans and on 4s currently 4500mah

[MrBen]

ben you stil use your qav400 with the snap on gimbal?

gimbal problems at moment but yeah still got it, need to sort gimbal out as it keeps doing the funky chicken dance

[mark1975]

lol ben

[Martink1974]

give it test fly with extra weight see what times you get you could always go to 11 inch props  not sure what max is on disco

[gavnthat]

Gotta be worth putting a gimbal on the disco to see. I have seen some nice vids from disco's with gimbals modded to fit. Martyns looked pretty good although I don't know what flight times he got.

[Tecnic]

You can buy my CX-20 if you like, I don't use it
I fitted a full APM instead of the cut down standard version, it has a GLB gimbal already fitted too as well as wiring for telemetry (which I used to test waypoint flights)
External USB port so you can plug in and change stuff

It's pretty much fully sorted, you can't really get an aircraft that can do more

£250 delivered, all I've ever used it for is setting it up and testing it, though I did break and repair one of the legs on it's first ever flight as the monkeys that built it didn't even stick the flight controller down inside

[xxpitt]

i have a qav400 with printed gimbal and if you take one shoe off so your on a slant its tuned perfectly