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Hey Guys , After months of reading and saving I finally got me the gear required for my 1st Fpv Setup

It will go on a Hawk Sky (EZ star clone w ailerons), the gear
so far is:

Arc 28-37-3 2500 kv inrunner
40amp tower pro esc
6*4 , 5*5 apc sports prop
2200 mah (or 3000) to power above with receiver + 4 servos
4 channel 35mhz dynam tx (Only for now)

AVs - all from hobbywireless.com
t1024 2.4ghx tx 1 watt
standard 2.4ghz rx
Sn555 pal camera
evg920v vid glasses
couple of ferrites
180 pan servo
1300mah or 1800 for power

Future upgrades (hopefully soon)
New hawk sky fuse
remzibi osd
11db circular polarized antennae from flytron
5amp ubec
New Tx , as my current one is only 4 channel, will have to remove rudder control to use for pan

The plan is to have the AV tx by the tail fin and keep the rc rx by the canopy giving just over 20" of distance away from each other.

My 1st question is, should I run the antennae wire down the fuse were it is at the moment? Or will my AV tx interfere with my rc control? My other option is to have the antennae go out to the tip of one wing..

2nd question is to do with powering the AV gear. Since this kit isnt plug and play I had to get some power adaptors for my tx, rx & cam and solder the cables myself as I had forgot to order them with the gear.

So far I made 1 adaptor for the 2.4 rx which powers on ok , but my problems is I have made a y cable for the power of cam + tx.
1 end is deans which I soldered both -ves to the -ve terminal and the 2 +ves to the positive pin. Is this right?
Other end is the 2 adaptor to the Tx & camera both 12v

The camera comes on when connected straight to goggles but when going thru AV tx rx, all I get is static. Is this a power problem(y cable)

the channel setting on the tx hasnt got the best explanation online but I might just try the other channels

Pics coming soon and any help Appreciated

Edit: question 2 solved my power adapter didnt work when it was pushed all the way in for some reason I'll have a tinker with it some more

Pic of the Hawk Sky

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Hey Fpvdreamn!
Your projects sounds interesting!

The tail fin is a good place for your video tx. A 2.4GHz video transmitter will not interfer with 35MHz radio!

To your 2nd question: Sorry, I don't understand your wiring. Could you make a layout for us?

Best regards
Heiko

(05-15-2010 12:51 PM)Grandcaravan Wrote: [ -> ]Hey Fpvdreamn!
Your projects sounds interesting!

The tail fin is a good place for your video tx. A 2.4GHz video transmitter will not interfer with 35MHz radio!

So will I be able to just place the 2.4 vid tx where the canopy is ? or do i still need to have the 20" space between vtx & rc rx?

(05-15-2010 12:51 PM)Grandcaravan Wrote: [ -> ]To your 2nd question: Sorry, I don't understand your wiring. Could you make a layout for us?

Best regards
Heiko

I drew it up on paint, hope it make sense. I soldered exactly to the picture

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Yes, you can place your VTX where your camera is! I put my video transmitter and camera on a canopy, without any problems.
RC receiver is placed in the fuselage

Your wiring looks perfect! It should work without any problems!
As far as I can see you are not using an OSD.

(05-15-2010 02:21 PM)Grandcaravan Wrote: [ -> ]Yes, you can place your VTX where your camera is! I put my video transmitter and camera on a canopy, without any problems.
RC receiver is placed in the fuselage

Your wiring looks perfect! It should work without any problems!
As far as I can see you are not using an OSD.

Thank you for your answer Ya I dont have an osd yet but will get one once I get a new fuselage. This one is now a bit bruised up (held together with some bamboo skewers )as its had some bad crashes...

I will be using this fuselage for practice & with the new fuselage I will cut out some compartments along the fuse for easier access to components. Hopefully by then I will have a good Rx antennae to start some long range Fpv

But before all this I cant wait to do my first maiden cant wait. For now I can record with a 808 keychain.

Sounds great!
Please share you maiden flight video with us

Hi Fpvdreamn,

In Argentina, with my FPV group, we were testing this aircraft since octover last year.

Our post

Flying this plane, with a 2200mha (11.1v LiPo) and a towerpro (1.5kg thrust) ESC 30A, autonomy was about (25 - 35 minutes)

In video system, the setup is:
1W 2.4ghz TX
201 Camera
Pan&Tilt mount (pan is 360º with a sailboat servo, standart size)
DAKAR OSD
LiPo 1000mha (11.1v) for video

CoPilot + ArduPilot
RX in 72Mhz PCM

Also tell you, that with PCM Type (Original TX and RX, without modify anything) 6 kilometers is guaranteed (at 300 meters high, very low altitude for long distance flight).









http://vimeo.com/6388619

Regards, Gerardo

Hi Gerado!
Your Hawk Sky looks very beautiful!
From where you got this black pusher pod?

(05-17-2010 05:35 AM)Grandcaravan Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Gerado!
Your Hawk Sky looks very beautiful!
From where you got this black pusher pod?

The Pod comes standard with the hawk sky

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(05-17-2010 03:24 AM)Aerotechno Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Fpvdreamn,

In Argentina, with my FPV group, we were testing this aircraft since octover last year.

Our post

Flying this plane, with a 2200mha (11.1v LiPo) and a towerpro (1.5kg thrust) ESC 30A, autonomy was about (25 - 35 minutes)

In video system, the setup is:
1W 2.4ghz TX
201 Camera
Pan&Tilt mount (pan is 360º with a sailboat servo, standart size)
DAKAR OSD
LiPo 1000mha (11.1v) for video

CoPilot + ArduPilot
RX in 72Mhz PCM

Also tell you, that with PCM Type (Original TX and RX, without modify anything) 6 kilometers is guaranteed (at 300 meters high, very low altitude for long distance flight).

Hi Gerado, thanks for posting this information My setup is so far basic compared to yours. But I like the idea of 360º sailboat servo and the way you mounted you camera straight in the canopy. I was thinking of making a balsa base for the camera and vtx but after seing yours I will be copying thanks.

Just a couple of questions... With your Video batt, how long does it run for on your 1000mah? so far I will try a 11.1 1300mah and hope I can get to one hour flight with camera & tx running from it.

And does your Vtx get warm? do you ever need a heatsink or fan on it? just worried Il crash some where and I wont be able to get to it on time. Its winter in nz now (8-16 celcius average) so maybe I shouldnt worry

Thanks your plane is realy nice

Sherwin

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Gerado,

Whoa! just watched some of you videos.. Awesome hopefully I will get similar results to you. I like your osd (dakar), I will search it up.

Thanks again
Sherwin

Sherwin,

The hawksky is not mine belongs to a friend of fpv-bsas.com.ar forum, but I followed the project closely

It's very similar to the famous EasyStar by the way...

The sailboat servo is seriously cool; it's heavy (all are standart size) but the setup is in 3 minutes!

The balsa pod is not a bad idea, because the EPP canopy is not as easy to adapt to the needs...

About the videoTX is very powerfull!! (we almost use that size, if not we use a 500mW TX)
In my easyglider i use that TX with a 1300mha 11.1v Lipo and i can make four flights of 20 minutes each, without recharging the battery.
In distance terms, we estimate 15-18km range with a patch 14dbi antenna.
The transmitter is very hot when it works, but it's a problem only in summer (+30º), but the solution is to put it outside the aircraft and not having much time on land working, just turn it on before takeoff.

The DAKAR OSD is a very cheap and easy-to-program osd.

The video of the hawk it's from "Nono's", the plane owner, a great friend of mine.

Regards, Gerardo