This tutorial saved my gimbal. I purchased an inexpensive CNC gimbal from ebay and when I powered it up it was shaking, flipping and making noise. This is my first gimbal and I figured I got a bad one. I decided to check RUclips for any ideas before sending it back and found your video. I decided not to update the Firmware, just to use the updated settings screen and set most the values to what you were using. The damn thing works perfect now! Thanks for sharing this!
THANK-YOU! I just received my Eachine 2D Gimbal from Banggood, and spent all evening trying to get the darned thing to respond to ANY programming input. I must've watched 20 videos before I came upon this one of yours... and this was THE ONLY video that gave me the help I needed (albeit using GUI v2.2 b2, but it wasn't too dissimilar to the GUI version that you were using. Thank-you!
This video saved me from investing in additional cheap gimbal control boards, so my thanks to sewerzuk. My $49.99 Amazon Andoer gimbal also programmed fine with V2.2b2 software. Also required was an initial download of CP210x USB to UART bridge driver (V6.7) on my Win7 computer. I simply followed the setup discussed and my f450 (APM2.6, Xiaoyi camera, Taranis radio) is learning to take very pleasing videos and interval stills. Thanks again for sharing.
Excellent video. Helped me get my GLB gimbal working after I hit Defaults by accident in the software. Your overiew and values were spot on and now I am back in business. Thank you!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! The absolute most simple and easy to follow guide on setting up and tuning a simple 2-axis gimbal. I'm a total noob here, and it just worked for me!
Thank you very much for this! You pulled me out of a tight spot. I tried to calibrate mine but ended up losing all calibration. Your walk through really helped me set mine back up and understand it so much better.
Great video. I just got one of these gimbals & it kept shaking & vibrating. I watched your video & put your settings in & now it's perfect. Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work.
probably the best video so far explaining chinese copies, and how to get them to work. Almost worth the extra bucks to avoid the headache. There needs to be more videos like this explaining everything a beginner would need to know, before getting into this. Anyways, I think I finally got mine to work. it finally connected. It says my firmware was 0.57 b4, this version doesn't even exist. So after reading some comments all around the web, I was told to download GUI 2.2. And it finally connected. I did not have to flash the damn thing.
This was super-handy, thank you! It turns out that if you're trying to use one of these big old gimbals with a new gopro or gopro clone that weighs a fraction of what the old ones did, the key to stop the gimbal from jumping around like crazy is to cut the power in half or more- 40 on pitch and 90 on roll with the one I'm using.
Excellent video which has helped me to set up my gimbal. Its a pity the eBay sellers dont supply ANY instructions with the gimbal. The links on the page were worthless. Thanks.
Hola muchas gracias por tu video. Tengo un problema con mi CARDÁN. Escucha un zumbido ES CONSTANTE COMO SU VIDEO, PERO NO PUEDO QUITAR. CÓMO HACER PARA ELIMINAR EL BUZZ?
Yeah, it's balanced, and it moves freely without power. When you tilt the quad to 45deg the gimbal can't hold the camera level, it has a large slow oscillation.
Chris Cavill Does it happen in both directions? What do you have the power set to on the roll axis? Have you run the accelerometer and gyro calibrations?
thats what happened to and i downloaded this firmware and it worked but i cant get my gimbal to look up ,i have it pionted straight and it will look all the way down just all the way up?
hi matt verley I have followed your instructions, but my gimbal (BGC V3.15) continue to vibrate and buzz again. what is the solution Thank you for your time
Hi can you help me please i have a 3 axis gimbal done everything right running windows 10 but when i do all the changes the read and write button r not lit and nothing happens when i press them to save my settings any idea hope you can help
I can’t seem to get the motors to working. It connects to the software fine. The motors just won’t move. Tarot 680 Pro Naza M V2 Taranis Plus Transmitter X8R Receiver
Hi. Thanks for the great tutorial. Do you know if this will work with any of the chinese gimbal controllers? I ordered one recently but when turned on it never stays straight nor properly oriented.
Need your help, bought a gimbal with 2.2 firmware. The pitch axis moves perfectly, however the roll is very jerky and won't hold position. Motor power and "P" gain aren't having much affect. What can i do?
Hi is there a way to disable the auto-leveling of the pitch. I am building a handheld gimbal and I want the pitch to aim where I point it. In other words, I want to be able to aim the gimbal at the sky and then pan down to the ground. So basically "lock" the pitch position. Thanks
Hay I'm struggling to get my new hakrc 3 axis gimbal to plug into my computer so I can make changes to the settings on it. It's running a storm32 board but I'm not sure of the firmware. I downloaded a few port drivers and a few GUIs and still can't get the GUI to see the gimbal. Any ideas?
This is going to sound stupid but as I only want to control the pitch, do I connect the gimbal board to the receiver or to my CRIUS AIOP flight controller
Adam Keely You can do either; connecting it to the flight controller allows some extra functionality, but if all you want to do is control the pitch from your transmitter, the easiest thing to do is to just connect it directly to the receiver. I have mine connected to my APM flight controller so that I can have it automatically pitch up and down as part of the flight program, but also have it set up with RC pass-through so that I can also control it with my transmitter.
Hi i know it's 2018 but i got a question about this setup it's all about the default gimbal setting when i pitch about 50 degrees the camera shakes is there a way to adjust to make it pitch about 70 degrees from the gui ?
Hello from Spain. I would like to know that you use your battery to control the gimbal. I would like to use the gimbal in a crane and want to know what you use to put battery directly.
If i follow all instructions can i be able to make the gimbal work with bug 3 drone and its transmitter ? or its just for specific transmitter or drone ?
Can you link me to the software download page buddy the one the instructions directed me to took me to a Chinese page that count be translates for some reason
Hi, with that PIDs values do you have good image, i bought a Eachine Light but i am having some vibration in image, and i have some afraid of changing the PIDs values.
nice video but I have a question for you , I have a eagle eye gimbal with a SBGC v3.0 32 bit board on it and Im having a hard time getting this to work. Do you know of any where I can ship this to have someone set this up for me ?
Is it an "official" Basecam board? If so, Basecam Electronics will likely support it for you. If it is a Chinese clone (most of them are) I'm not aware of anybody who offers support for it. What kind of problems are you having?
The gimbal came from China all the wires were connected other than on the board and from what I'm seeing on the Web you have to tweak the senors. The device came with no instructions which is crazy and noooo support.lol so now I have to find someone to ship it two to tweak the senors and connect the wires. If I had your email I can send you photos of the board.
Thanks for the video - helped me to stabilise my gimbal!! The only problem I have now is as soon as I plug in S1 the gimbal tries to pitch all the way down and around... any ideas please?
hi i have te same gimbal but when i pich forword the gimbals starts tu buzz and vibrate.... there are now wires that get puld on ore somphing like that. i think i can solve this problem in the software but i dont now how... could you pleas help me out... it seams you now alot about this gimball... greats Jaap
sewerzuk you seem to know what you're talking about haha, I want to put a heavier camera on it (135g ish) but it just falls when i push it too far in one direction, is there anyway to counter this? i have the power set to 150 already but there isn't much change...
Does your gimbal have adjustable arms? It is important to get the center of gravity right in line with the axis of both pitch and roll motors. If you get this right, then the camera will tend to stay in any position that you place it, even without power to the motors. They aren't very powerful, so this is very important...
Hi, thanks for the vid :) i want to setup a gimbal where the movement of the 2 axes is predetermined by a computer program over a certain period of time (24h) . Any ideas how to get it done?
Really nice explanations, my gimbal works now like a charm. I don't like to just copy someone's configuration without understanding, but in this case I learnt and understood what parameters I have to change and what are they for. Just a couple of questions; is it better to connect the pitch input from the receiver or the fc? I couldn't test it out yet but if my gimbal doesnt point 90* straigth down when changing pitch from tx, do I need to change angle limit from the Bgc or the pwm from receiver? Thanks for your video.
Thanks for uploading this video found very helpful, one question I have MOS tube PTZ board & it is up & running but there is some vibration do you know whether this can be removed by tweeting the setting if so were would one start?
Found the problem, turns out the roll axis motor is faulty. Switched the two around and now i have the same issue but with Pitch. Problem followed the motor. Have asked supplier for a replacement motor. Thanks for trying
Hi thanks for the video! I would really appreciate a bit of help: I am trying to setup a Gimbal to stabilize a 360degree camera (Ricoh Theta S-just barely heavier than. GoPro M of mine for use on a F550 Hexacopter. Any suggestions for the best way to go about doing this? Do you think I could buy a cheap GoPro Gimbal and mess with the settings in the GUI and if so what would need to be adjusted? Or should I build an entire gimbal from scratch? I've never built one or tried changing settings I've just bought and used them in the past. Any suggestions would be much appreciated, thank you!
+Matteo Adrogna You can do the programming without the battery plugged in, but the motors will have no power. I usually make adjustments with the battery unplugged, then plug it in to test, then unplug for further adjustments, etc.
All calibrations done, power on roll axis 120. When looking at the camera, tilting to the left ids better then the right. Returning to centre or level is slow. I'll make as short video and post to show you.
Chris Cavill That would be helpful; if you can also post some screenshots of the BGC GUI so I can see the settings, that might help too. Can't promise that I can figure it out, but maybe something will jump out at me...
+Power Max No; not because of using the GUI. If it is incompatible with the GUI, it just posts a "GUI/firmware mismatch" error. I did accidentally flash a newer firmware onto a clone board which did render the board inoperable, but I was able to re-flash it with an older firmware. The only bricked boards I have are due to physical damage, power supply problems, etc.
+sewerzuk Ahh, that's a relief. I actually went ahead and tried updating the firmware to the latest 2.4b7 release, but the upgrade didn't work. I don't think it bricked the board. I then proceeded to wipe the EEPROM though arduino, that worked fine, the LED blinky stretch also worked fine, proving that the board is just a glorified arduino. However, I couldn't get basecam software to connect to it (probably because the wiped board is no longer programed with basecam software, so the basecam serial protocol link never gets established) and now the firmware upgrade tool within the GUI does not work for any version. I probably need to use the AVR ISP header to program that HEX file in, but I don't know anything about that. I will try the AVRdude tool today to see if that does work. However, last night I found this firmware called "BruGUI" which is open source software, so I uploaded that to the board. The flashing process for that is VERY similar to multiwii, downloading the source code, opening it up in the arduino IDE, and uploading that sketch. It didn't work right away, I had to tune the PIDs, calibrate the gyro and acc, and swap the XY axis or something, but in the end it seems to work OK. I will need to fly with it to see how well it performs.
Nothing works for me. My cheap Ebay gimbal hums like a vibrator machine. The calibrate accel. command does NOTHING. The calibrate gyro command does NOTHING. Device will not accept firmware updates. Do you suppose I could re-sell this thing as a good paint shaker?
gklugie The chinese clones' firmware cannot be updated; and the calibrate accel and gyro function happens fairly quickly...you need to look at the status LED on the board during the process. As far as the vibration, try turning down the power for both pitch and roll, and reduce the P to 8, I to 0.04, and D to 4. This should get you close...
Hi there and Many thanks for the video... That really helped a lot!!! ;) The only question I have is: I've finished the hole thing and after saving and disconnect the LEDs on the board keep flashing fast wen it should be fixed as per normal! What do you suggest ?
Hi First off thanks for the video. It's is quite informative. Small question: What transmitter do you use to control the gimbal in the end and how to set that up? Thanks
+Fábio Santos I am using a Futaba T8J; but any transmitter with an extra channel would work fine. On my UAV's I have the gimbal plugged into a free output channel on the flight controller and a free channel on the receiver ported to that same channel so that it can be controlled with my laptop or with the transmitter. The gimbal controller has the remote control feature built right in; so it is reall just a matter of plugging it in with some servo cables.
Eric Magnet Yes; I have worked with both. The clones usually work just fine, but it is hit and miss which version BGC software and firmware they run. Sometimes, an upgrade will brick the board. I actually have several gimbals...I run the cheap clones on my multirotors because I seem to go through one every few months (water, impact, etc.). I run genuine ones on 2 non-aerial gimbals that I have.
Would you say the genuine board is worth the money? Im planing on building a small one handed go pro gimbal. I was looking at the news BGC tiny 32. Thanks
From a functional standpoint, no. I don't think the genuine boards are worth the money. The clones can be tuned to work just as well. From an ethical standpoint? Well...Basecam was the company that designed/built the software and hardware in the first place. Its kinda nice to use their products. That was one of the reasons I bought a couple of genuine boards.
Thanks alot for your response, very helpful. I couldn't seem to find a straight answer online. I'm just looking to play around, and as much as id love to support his effort, 15 bucks is much cheaper than 130. Thanks again!
dont know if your still doing this, but I came across your posting here and it seems you really know about these gimbals I recently purchased one of these 3 axis gimbals from goodluckbuy which are like the ones you have there Im already completely lost Im running 3dr pix hawk and have had the tarot 2 axis gimbal working for a while now until it broke, wanting to use different camera rather than a go pro, I figure Id buy one of these the tarot was easy, plug and play, with two wires coming off the aircraft, one for signal one ground I have no idea what Im doing with this one, seems it trys to initialize and works, but easily goes out of wack, would you consider setting it up for me if i send it to you, I would be glad to pay you for your time thanks
Thanks for creating this video. I found it to be one of three on YT that really was a big help. I do have a question & that is my gimbal goes jittery crazy when I roll it max to the left. Have you experienced this and do you have a suggestion as how to solve it. If necessary I can send you a brief video of the issue if you give me your email address. Thanks for any help.
Hi sewerzuk. Nice presentation, it seems as I've found the right person..., hopefully? :-) I also bought this BGC Gimbal from China and tried to remove the Noise by setting to High, which made the Gimbal shaky and more noisy..? I therefore tried to calibrate, both in simple and advanced, which didn't solve the problem.In desperation I hit the Default button and the Gimbal went crazy allover the place, the Compass, pitch and roll indicators on the GUI is now just flickering and values are all over the place and the PITCH sign went inverted(Upwards down). I disconnected from GUI and powered up the Gimbal on the Quad, it's completely dead, the Green LED is on but no movement. Could you lead me in the right direction to get this Gimbal back on-line..? Your help on this issue will be greatly appreciated..! Cheers Kenn
kenn knudsen I'll try to help! Which camera are you using? First thing's first; make sure you have the camera balanced (center of gravity needs to be centered on the pitch and roll axis, so the camera tends to stay in the position that you place it even with power off). Once you have done that, Try these values for pitch and roll: P:5 I:0.04 D:10 Set the power for pitch and roll to about 120. Change the number of poles for the motors to 14. Then plug in the board and run the gyro and acc calibrations. If the camera is upside down, change the Z axis to -Z. Let me know what you get...
sewerzuk Hi sewerzuk.Thanks for your time. I'm using the SJ4000. Perfectly balanced. So far I've followed your instructions and successfully got in contact with the gimbal again.When I'm powering up the Gimbal on the Quad it's now its trying to tilt backwards and making noise while trying to..!Think it needs more tweaking..?
The sensor is mounted horizontally, underneath the camera platform. I changed the axix to - Z and X, which solved the problem..! The Gimbal is very silent and works without shitter and noise now, Greeaaat...! Thanks alot for your help.. :-) I saved the profile, so I won't be in a similar situation in the future... :-P Now remains only test flights and fine tuning, so I don't promise to be out of your loop yet..! ;-)
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You published this 4 years ago, but you just saved the day in '18 for me! Thank you!
which motor can I use with the BGC board?
This tutorial saved my gimbal. I purchased an inexpensive CNC gimbal from ebay and when I powered it up it was shaking, flipping and making noise. This is my first gimbal and I figured I got a bad one. I decided to check RUclips for any ideas before sending it back and found your video. I decided not to update the Firmware, just to use the updated settings screen and set most the values to what you were using. The damn thing works perfect now! Thanks for sharing this!
THANK-YOU! I just received my Eachine 2D Gimbal from Banggood, and spent all evening trying to get the darned thing to respond to ANY programming input. I must've watched 20 videos before I came upon this one of yours... and this was THE ONLY video that gave me the help I needed (albeit using GUI v2.2 b2, but it wasn't too dissimilar to the GUI version that you were using. Thank-you!
can i make my gimble work for bug3 drone emitter ? or this gimbal only works with this drone showed in video ?
This video saved me from investing in additional cheap gimbal control boards, so my thanks to sewerzuk. My $49.99 Amazon Andoer gimbal also programmed fine with V2.2b2 software. Also required was an initial download of CP210x USB to UART bridge driver (V6.7) on my Win7 computer. I simply followed the setup discussed and my f450 (APM2.6, Xiaoyi camera, Taranis radio) is learning to take very pleasing videos and interval stills. Thanks again for sharing.
thanks for the positive comment, I appreciate it!
Excellent video. Helped me get my GLB gimbal working after I hit Defaults by accident in the software. Your overiew and values were spot on and now I am back in business. Thank you!
THANK YOU SO MUCH! The absolute most simple and easy to follow guide on setting up and tuning a simple 2-axis gimbal. I'm a total noob here, and it just worked for me!
Excellent. I try your settings and the results are night and day. The gimbal use to shake really badly and now is really smooth.
Thanks
Thank you very much for this! You pulled me out of a tight spot. I tried to calibrate mine but ended up losing all calibration. Your walk through really helped me set mine back up and understand it so much better.
dude you saved my life, i got my gimbal working. thanks to you!!
Great video. I just got one of these gimbals & it kept shaking & vibrating. I watched your video & put your settings in & now it's perfect. Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work.
probably the best video so far explaining chinese copies, and how to get them to work. Almost worth the extra bucks to avoid the headache. There needs to be more videos like this explaining everything a beginner would need to know, before getting into this. Anyways, I think I finally got mine to work. it finally connected. It says my firmware was 0.57 b4, this version doesn't even exist. So after reading some comments all around the web, I was told to download GUI 2.2. And it finally connected. I did not have to flash the damn thing.
wat do u mean extra bucks chinese copies are cheaper
This was super-handy, thank you!
It turns out that if you're trying to use one of these big old gimbals with a new gopro or gopro clone that weighs a fraction of what the old ones did, the key to stop the gimbal from jumping around like crazy is to cut the power in half or more- 40 on pitch and 90 on roll with the one I'm using.
Excellent video which has helped me to set up my gimbal. Its a pity the eBay sellers dont supply ANY instructions with the gimbal. The links on the page were worthless.
Thanks.
bought mine 3 years ago. tested with 3S and all was fine. never connected to GUI. now im gonna use it 😄
THANK YOU! i was wondering all over the net to get it working!!! again .. thank you very much!
Thanks so much for this, finally got rid of that darn high pitch noise!
I finally resolve some my beginners problems on my similar BGC gimbal with Your tips...thanks sir! :o)
Excellent tutorial. I needed this.
what is differences between BGC board that comes with and without a button on it?
Now i can setup my gimbal. Thanks!
Hi, how did you configure that flashing led light (white) at 9:52
why the gimbal was shacking in this video
how to solved this problem because my gimbal was same in this video but it can't connec in simple bgc
hi mate need your help my gimbal was working fine b4 but now then i pan down the moter start to scream and shake
Hola muchas gracias por tu video. Tengo un problema con mi CARDÁN. Escucha un zumbido ES CONSTANTE COMO SU VIDEO, PERO NO PUEDO QUITAR. CÓMO HACER PARA ELIMINAR EL BUZZ?
Yeah, it's balanced, and it moves freely without power. When you tilt the quad to 45deg the gimbal can't hold the camera level, it has a large slow oscillation.
Chris Cavill Does it happen in both directions? What do you have the power set to on the roll axis? Have you run the accelerometer and gyro calibrations?
thats what happened to and i downloaded this firmware and it worked but i cant get my gimbal to look up ,i have it pionted straight and it will look all the way down just all the way up?
I've been trying to download the basecam page but for some reason keep telling me the to look for the right program on the Wed any advise please
hi matt verley
I have followed your instructions, but my gimbal (BGC V3.15) continue to vibrate and buzz again. what is the solution
Thank you for your time
Hi I have purchased a similar gimbal complete it says in the instruction do not alter firmware or board becomes in operative ???
+dusty dave Yes, some of the BGC's will "brick" if you try to upload new firmware. But, no problem with making settings changes...
Hello! I need stop gyroscopes gimbal to leave gimbal fixed to fly a drone, and use gimbal only to focus at will, ist for FPV . How can I do it?
Hi can you help me please i have a 3 axis gimbal done everything right running windows 10 but when i do all the changes the read and write button r not lit and nothing happens when i press them to save my settings any idea hope you can help
I can’t seem to get the motors to working. It connects to the software fine. The motors just won’t move.
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Hi. Thanks for the great tutorial. Do you know if this will work with any of the chinese gimbal controllers? I ordered one recently but when turned on it never stays straight nor properly oriented.
Need your help, bought a gimbal with 2.2 firmware. The pitch axis moves perfectly, however the roll is very jerky and won't hold position. Motor power and "P" gain aren't having much affect. What can i do?
Chris Cavill Is the gimbal balanced well? Will the camera stay in a neutral position without power applied?
hi, I conect my gimbal im computer and when i go to GUI the softwere speak connecting and don't connet help my
how do I adjust the distance it tilts per click of wheel on TX?
Hi is there a way to disable the auto-leveling of the pitch. I am building a handheld gimbal and I want the pitch to aim where I point it. In other words, I want to be able to aim the gimbal at the sky and then pan down to the ground. So basically "lock" the pitch position. Thanks
very good video, it helped me a lot.
Hay I'm struggling to get my new hakrc 3 axis gimbal to plug into my computer so I can make changes to the settings on it. It's running a storm32 board but I'm not sure of the firmware. I downloaded a few port drivers and a few GUIs and still can't get the GUI to see the gimbal. Any ideas?
This is going to sound stupid but as I only want to control the pitch, do I connect the gimbal board to the receiver or to my CRIUS AIOP flight controller
Adam Keely You can do either; connecting it to the flight controller allows some extra functionality, but if all you want to do is control the pitch from your transmitter, the easiest thing to do is to just connect it directly to the receiver. I have mine connected to my APM flight controller so that I can have it automatically pitch up and down as part of the flight program, but also have it set up with RC pass-through so that I can also control it with my transmitter.
Hi i know it's 2018 but i got a question about this setup it's all about the default gimbal setting when i pitch about 50 degrees the camera shakes is there a way to adjust to make it pitch about 70 degrees from the gui ?
What to do plz help me
Hello from Spain.
I would like to know that you use your battery to control the gimbal.
I would like to use the gimbal in a crane and want to know what you use to put battery directly.
billy thepoo You can use the balance connector from any 3S LiPO battery
thank you
hi, I bough one of these. it starts up fine but then banks to the right. any ideas?
so does the syma x8w controller (transmitter)with 2.4 ghZ work with controller of the gimbal or i have to use another controller to the gimbal??
If i follow all instructions can i be able to make the gimbal work with bug 3 drone and its transmitter ? or its just for specific transmitter or drone ?
can you tell us where is signal port and ground
I have the same one, but when i tilt mine at almost max, it make very quick adjustements
What could it be?
Can you link me to the software download page buddy the one the instructions directed me to took me to a Chinese page that count be translates for some reason
where is the bottom located I can't it on mines
Great video lots of help
Hi, with that PIDs values do you have good image, i bought a Eachine Light but i am having some vibration in image, and i have some afraid of changing the PIDs values.
Hello, is it possible to connect this gimbal to a naze32 controller so you can also controll tilt through an extra channel on your tx?
My rx only outputs PPM, so direct connection to the rx is a no-no I guess? Does the naze32 output pwm for gimbal controllers?
nice video but I have a question for you , I have a eagle eye gimbal with a SBGC v3.0 32 bit board on it and Im having a hard time getting this to work. Do you know of any where I can ship this to have someone set this up for me ?
Is it an "official" Basecam board? If so, Basecam Electronics will likely support it for you. If it is a Chinese clone (most of them are) I'm not aware of anybody who offers support for it. What kind of problems are you having?
The gimbal came from China all the wires were connected other than on the board and from what I'm seeing on the Web you have to tweak the senors. The device came with no instructions which is crazy and noooo support.lol so now I have to find someone to ship it two to tweak the senors and connect the wires. If I had your email I can send you photos of the board.
Michael Mcgriff I sent you a message with my email address
Sir it is not connecting to gimble (this is not coming COM19)
Thanks for the video - helped me to stabilise my gimbal!! The only problem I have now is as soon as I plug in S1 the gimbal tries to pitch all the way down and around... any ideas please?
Please help me whistle gimbal but stabilization
hi i have te same gimbal but when i pich forword the gimbals starts tu buzz and vibrate.... there are now wires that get puld on ore somphing like that. i think i can solve this problem in the software but i dont now how... could you pleas help me out... it seams you now alot about this gimball...
greats Jaap
Jaap Martin To solve motor buzz, I usually turn down the power to the motor and also decrease P and D setings (D should be roughly 1/2 of P)
sewerzuk you seem to know what you're talking about haha, I want to put a heavier camera on it (135g ish) but it just falls when i push it too far in one direction, is there anyway to counter this? i have the power set to 150 already but there isn't much change...
Does your gimbal have adjustable arms? It is important to get the center of gravity right in line with the axis of both pitch and roll motors. If you get this right, then the camera will tend to stay in any position that you place it, even without power to the motors. They aren't very powerful, so this is very important...
I'll try this out tomorrow, thanks for the help man! :)
Thank you very much for this... :)
Do you think Yaw would work if I add the pins and a motor?
Nice video thanks. Just a question do you know if the board will handle a 14.5 volt battery? I have a hex with a 5000mah 14.5V battery. Thanks
I have a question, where do I place the sensor?
Bob Kaley I usually sticky-tape it to the bracket that holds the camera; directly underneath the camera.
sewerzuk Thanks, I finally spotted it. Great video by the way, was/is a big help to me. many thanks my man!
Hi, thanks for the vid :) i want to setup a gimbal where the movement of the 2 axes is predetermined by a computer program over a certain period of time (24h) . Any ideas how to get it done?
Hello,
Have you got the reference or the "name" of this gimbal controller board ?
Thank you very much.
Really nice explanations, my gimbal works now like a charm. I don't like to just copy someone's configuration without understanding, but in this case I learnt and understood what parameters I have to change and what are they for.
Just a couple of questions; is it better to connect the pitch input from the receiver or the fc?
I couldn't test it out yet but if my gimbal doesnt point 90* straigth down when changing pitch from tx, do I need to change angle limit from the Bgc or the pwm from receiver?
Thanks for your video.
which motor are you using?
Can anyone help me out I have a phantom 3 standard I'm trying to install a Chinese gamble does anyone knows how to install it
Hi!
The card was ready ?/Flashed i think.
USB knew already run the program ?
ty the answer!
great bit of info thankyou
Thanks for uploading this video found very helpful, one question I have MOS tube PTZ board & it is up & running but there is some vibration do you know whether this can be removed by tweeting the setting if so were would one start?
I have found that lowering the power settings helps to reduce the high frequency vibration...maybe start there?
Found the problem, turns out the roll axis motor is faulty. Switched the two around and now i have the same issue but with Pitch. Problem followed the motor. Have asked supplier for a replacement motor. Thanks for trying
Chris Cavill Excellent! Glad to hear that you figured it out...I hadn't had a chance to look at your video yet
Hi thanks for the video! I would really appreciate a bit of help: I am trying to setup a Gimbal to stabilize a 360degree camera (Ricoh Theta S-just barely heavier than. GoPro M of mine for use on a F550 Hexacopter. Any suggestions for the best way to go about doing this? Do you think I could buy a cheap GoPro Gimbal and mess with the settings in the GUI and if so what would need to be adjusted? Or should I build an entire gimbal from scratch? I've never built one or tried changing settings I've just bought and used them in the past. Any suggestions would be much appreciated, thank you!
will this work on hakrc strom 32 too ?
while you do this is just the gimbal connected to the pc or do i need the battery to be plugged in aswell?
+Matteo Adrogna You can do the programming without the battery plugged in, but the motors will have no power. I usually make adjustments with the battery unplugged, then plug it in to test, then unplug for further adjustments, etc.
Hi, I have abproblem with the stock gimbal it is slightly tilted on one side. Can someone help please?
can i make my gimble work for bug3 drone emitter ? or this gimbal only works with this drone showed in video ?
Details link plz
do u use 1s or 2s lipo for it???
Will this work with a stock XK Detect X380 2D gimbal?
All calibrations done, power on roll axis 120. When looking at the camera, tilting to the left ids better then the right. Returning to centre or level is slow. I'll make as short video and post to show you.
Chris Cavill That would be helpful; if you can also post some screenshots of the BGC GUI so I can see the settings, that might help too. Can't promise that I can figure it out, but maybe something will jump out at me...
thanks for your answer
have you permanently bricked one of these boards (that is not compatible with v2.4b7)?
+Power Max No; not because of using the GUI. If it is incompatible with the GUI, it just posts a "GUI/firmware mismatch" error. I did accidentally flash a newer firmware onto a clone board which did render the board inoperable, but I was able to re-flash it with an older firmware. The only bricked boards I have are due to physical damage, power supply problems, etc.
+sewerzuk Ahh, that's a relief. I actually went ahead and tried updating the firmware to the latest 2.4b7 release, but the upgrade didn't work. I don't think it bricked the board. I then proceeded to wipe the EEPROM though arduino, that worked fine, the LED blinky stretch also worked fine, proving that the board is just a glorified arduino. However, I couldn't get basecam software to connect to it (probably because the wiped board is no longer programed with basecam software, so the basecam serial protocol link never gets established) and now the firmware upgrade tool within the GUI does not work for any version. I probably need to use the AVR ISP header to program that HEX file in, but I don't know anything about that.
I will try the AVRdude tool today to see if that does work. However, last night I found this firmware called "BruGUI" which is open source software, so I uploaded that to the board. The flashing process for that is VERY similar to multiwii, downloading the source code, opening it up in the arduino IDE, and uploading that sketch. It didn't work right away, I had to tune the PIDs, calibrate the gyro and acc, and swap the XY axis or something, but in the end it seems to work OK. I will need to fly with it to see how well it performs.
Nothing works for me. My cheap Ebay gimbal hums like a vibrator machine. The calibrate accel. command does NOTHING. The calibrate gyro command does NOTHING. Device will not accept firmware updates. Do you suppose I could re-sell this thing as a good paint shaker?
gklugie The chinese clones' firmware cannot be updated; and the calibrate accel and gyro function happens fairly quickly...you need to look at the status LED on the board during the process. As far as the vibration, try turning down the power for both pitch and roll, and reduce the P to 8, I to 0.04, and D to 4. This should get you close...
sewerzuk
Thanks will try!
Hi there and Many thanks for the video... That really helped a lot!!! ;)
The only question I have is: I've finished the hole thing and after saving and disconnect the LEDs on the board keep flashing fast wen it should be fixed as per normal! What do you suggest ?
Ok thanx I will bear it in mind Atb
Hi First off thanks for the video. It's is quite informative.
Small question: What transmitter do you use to control the gimbal in the end and how to set that up?
Thanks
+Fábio Santos I am using a Futaba T8J; but any transmitter with an extra channel would work fine. On my UAV's I have the gimbal plugged into a free output channel on the flight controller and a free channel on the receiver ported to that same channel so that it can be controlled with my laptop or with the transmitter. The gimbal controller has the remote control feature built right in; so it is reall just a matter of plugging it in with some servo cables.
Have you had any experiences with the official boards vs the clones?
Eric Magnet Yes; I have worked with both. The clones usually work just fine, but it is hit and miss which version BGC software and firmware they run. Sometimes, an upgrade will brick the board. I actually have several gimbals...I run the cheap clones on my multirotors because I seem to go through one every few months (water, impact, etc.). I run genuine ones on 2 non-aerial gimbals that I have.
Would you say the genuine board is worth the money? Im planing on building a small one handed go pro gimbal. I was looking at the news BGC tiny 32. Thanks
From a functional standpoint, no. I don't think the genuine boards are worth the money. The clones can be tuned to work just as well. From an ethical standpoint? Well...Basecam was the company that designed/built the software and hardware in the first place. Its kinda nice to use their products. That was one of the reasons I bought a couple of genuine boards.
Thanks alot for your response, very helpful. I couldn't seem to find a straight answer online. I'm just looking to play around, and as much as id love to support his effort, 15 bucks is much cheaper than 130. Thanks again!
Thanks, your great!!!
dont know if your still doing this, but I came across your posting here and it seems you really know about these gimbals
I recently purchased one of these 3 axis gimbals from goodluckbuy which are like the ones you have there
Im already completely lost
Im running 3dr pix hawk and have had the tarot 2 axis gimbal working for a while now until it broke,
wanting to use different camera rather than a go pro, I figure Id buy one of these
the tarot was easy, plug and play, with two wires coming off the aircraft, one for signal one ground
I have no idea what Im doing with this one,
seems it trys to initialize and works, but easily goes out of wack,
would you consider setting it up for me if i send it to you,
I would be glad to pay you for your time
thanks
where do I get the software for this thanks.
THANK YOU!!!!
you save me, i love you lmao
this guy save me too !
can i make my gimble work for bug3 drone emitter ? or this gimbal only works with this drone showed in video ?
Thanks for creating this video. I found it to be one of three on YT that really was a big help. I do have a question & that is my gimbal goes jittery crazy when I roll it max to the left. Have you experienced this and do you have a suggestion as how to solve it. If necessary I can send you a brief video of the issue if you give me your email address. Thanks for any help.
Спасибо !!!
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Hi, can I pay you $100 to help me set up our basecam gimbal over skype video share? Or if you're in LA, in person. Thanks! Tim
Sorry; I've had several requests like this. I tried it once and it was very difficult to do when I'm not there in person.
awesome video and explanation. want to learn from te best come here. you got my subscription and like
Hi sewerzuk.
Nice presentation, it seems as I've found the right person..., hopefully? :-)
I also bought this BGC Gimbal from China and tried to remove the Noise by setting to High, which made the Gimbal shaky and more noisy..? I therefore tried to calibrate, both in simple and advanced, which didn't solve the problem.In desperation I hit the Default button and the Gimbal went crazy allover the place, the Compass, pitch and roll indicators on the GUI is now just flickering and values are all over the place and the PITCH sign went inverted(Upwards down).
I disconnected from GUI and powered up the Gimbal on the Quad, it's completely dead, the Green LED is on but no movement.
Could you lead me in the right direction to get this Gimbal back on-line..?
Your help on this issue will be greatly appreciated..!
Cheers
Kenn
kenn knudsen I'll try to help! Which camera are you using? First thing's first; make sure you have the camera balanced (center of gravity needs to be centered on the pitch and roll axis, so the camera tends to stay in the position that you place it even with power off). Once you have done that, Try these values for pitch and roll: P:5 I:0.04 D:10 Set the power for pitch and roll to about 120. Change the number of poles for the motors to 14. Then plug in the board and run the gyro and acc calibrations. If the camera is upside down, change the Z axis to -Z. Let me know what you get...
sewerzuk Hi sewerzuk.Thanks for your time. I'm using the SJ4000. Perfectly balanced. So far I've followed your instructions and successfully got in contact with the gimbal again.When I'm powering up the Gimbal on the Quad it's now its trying to tilt backwards and making noise while trying to..!Think it needs more tweaking..?
If it is trying to tilt backward, then try changing the axis from Z to -Z. How do you have the sensor mounted?
The sensor is mounted horizontally, underneath the camera platform.
I changed the axix to - Z and X, which solved the problem..! The Gimbal is very silent and works without shitter and noise now, Greeaaat...! Thanks alot for your help.. :-)
I saved the profile, so I won't be in a similar situation in the future... :-P
Now remains only test flights and fine tuning, so I don't promise to be out of your loop yet..!
;-)
its work successful
which motor can I use with the BGC board?