As a novice just in the research phase before building his first quad, your videos are a godsend. Really informative and helps take some of the worry out of a process that looks incredibly daunting to the beginner.
Sorry Bruce, but I have a serious bone to pick with you! Since watching your "budget" mini-quad build I've spent over $1200 on parts to build one/several (I needed everything even transmitter and tools). You have seriously motivated me to not just watch all these videos of FPV insanity but to get my lazy, middle-aged ass into it. I've not been this excited, since being a child with a batman blow up bridge toy, waiting for my parts to trickle in. The next challenge is how to hide the expenditure from the finance minister (wife) but I have my ways. Seriously. Thanks. Your videos are amazingly motivating and the retail people should be paying you a fortune to show there stuff.... oh, where did I put my Credi Card?
MashO Matic LOL! totally get you, way past the $1200 so i stopped counting how much i spend. As for the credit card, go grocery shopping and check out each item individually. This will create a bill so long wife will be lazy to read.
simonTemplar G'day, You may be intrrested in a brainfart I had regarding R/C Models...; they almost all cost more per actual hour of Airtime than whatever actual Aircraft they're representing, and to even approach that then the Model needs to fly for at least one hour. Eg, my son paid $250 for an Electric Pitts Special "Python", and if it flies for an hour then it's not far off the hourly cost of flying a real Pitts...; because it flew a 3-second Loop due to a frozen Elevator Servo, then unless it gets repaired and put back into the Sky to change the equation, it flew at a cost of $300,000 per Hour - and that's getting into Space-Shuttle like decadence... This is why I still fly an almost 14 year-old CC Lee Falcon, it ticked over 28 hours aloft yesterday, so it's now worked it's Cost down to only $8.57 per hour..., including materials used in repairs (it's carrying 3 Ounces of Epoxy & Woven Fibreglass Cloth & clear Tape, 20% overload on the original T/O Weight of a Pound.). How many Hours does a Quad fly for, before it's not worth persisting with ? I'm waiting for a pack of 8 sets of new Prop's to arrive, before I even begin to try to learn to fly the Hubsan X-4... ;-p Ciao !
WarblesOnALot I was thinking about that. If I had started again knowing what I know now what would be the two RC aircraft and RC equipment I would buy and keep and then buy no more. I'm constantly trying different foamy FPV planes and havn't yet found one I really like. Mind you I try and keep the costs down to a degree although I tend to use higher end FPV electrics such as ImmersionRC gear since its reliable.
stewjw G'day, Thanks, Yeah, I tend to operate off at the other end of the market, and the Cheapies are often so severely "Production-Engineered" to keep costs down that the sometimes fairly radical Aerodynamic Loopholes the Designer was intending them to fly through can be really small ; so it's a case of thinking really hard about how it looks as if it'll behave, prior to putting it up where it can crash, because a lot have only got one prang in them. An outlier is a $50 thing called a Sky Hero, only 11.5 inches in length and span (so as to fit in a 1-foot box ?), with a Ducted Fan on each Wingtip, 2 Channels and incredibly twitchy in Roll...; but it does have digital proportional Double Throttles, with L/R Trim, so it can Maintain Level Flight, Climb, or Glide under Power while retaining Asymetric Thrust for directional control... (power-off it simply glides as trimmed, but it requires some Throttle or there's no "Turning"). But it's made from some "leathery" kind of Foam, incredibly tough, I've spent a day shooting one out of a Treetop with a Rubber Catapault and 1-Ounce Rocks and though it lost 1 Square Inch of Trailing-Edge at a Wingroot it still glided almost straight - though it had been hit so hard on the Radio Reciever the Wax was shaken out of the RX Antenna Coil... And it literally cannot fly fast enough, to be able to crash hard enough, to damage the Airframe. A pity it needs Dead Calm to fly well, I actually got a second one to replace the one I shot the Radio out of... So, to me, the Hubsan X-4 is a throbbing challenge...; if I muff it then $250 can fly away and disappear from sight in the Regrowth Forest I live in.., or go up and then descend too fast and succumb to Rotor-Decay, and arrive like a white Stone..., amidst the Bassalt Rocks sticking up in the neighbouring Sheep-Paddock. Sadly, the first flight is always the riskiest, like the Pitts Python at $300,000 per Hour for 3 seconds. I suspect that for $10 more, they could've built the Pitts out of the same Leathery Foam the Sky-Hero is moulded from, and it would've pretty much bounced off the ground undamaged, instead of shattering at every Stress-point. Still, if it gets too scary, I can always have a few hours of fun with a well-folded sheet of A-4 Paper.... (check my "Aeromodelling For Children" Playlist, for the "World's Best Paper Aeroplane..." video, it has self-adjusting Variable Geometry, changing it's own Span and Area according to Airspeed, devilish cunning actually !)..., probably the most Cost-Effective Flying Model of all...?!? Have a good one, ;-p Ciao !
+MashO Matic .......... Oh.... I hear you brother..... in UK the finance minister (missus) is glad that I have a new hobby, but unaware (as of yet) about the costs..... I shall blame it all on Bruce too.
I love the whiteboard videos! My son and I (mostly me!) are following along with the budget miniquad build, and are learning a lot, thank you so much Bruce. As far as funding yourself, I'd rather see your channel keep the same open format, but perhaps supplemented with some sort of subscription for those of us who can afford it (Patreon?).
This type of video is very helpful. I'm a little dyslexic and find it hard to follow diagram an book stuff so this is a very good video foe me. Thanks Bruce.
FlyerDan Put a switch between the RX+TX wires from the naze otherwise you will have troubles when you try and hookup a USB to the naze, because they share the same wires. WIthout the switch, both will try and talk on the rx/tx lines and the usb wont work.
Random comment..... I use Traxxas connectors... They simply work and don't stuff up. (if somehow u broke it) Because the terminals come out of the housing they are very easy to solder in the field and they don't require any heatshrink... Maintenance wise they are years ahead... With a small screwdriver u can push the terminals out of the housing so they can be cleaned. This can easily be done on both male and female connectors. The housing is easy to grip to disconnect the battery, no more pulling on wires Current handling.... They can handle massive amounts of current draw as seen in the surface vehicles, I'm talking current draw a mini quad could only dream of... Things like a VXL stampede or a x01.... Bruce, u should try a Traxxas connector... Once u go black u won't go back (to red or yellow)
I'm starting now in this world.. and I might say... This is an incredible video... well explained as the low budget FPV drone... it's a pity that here in europe is very expensive and we are having so much trouble with products imported from china... I've just one question... in which frequency does this VTX works. .. is it 5.8 or 1.4 ghz?
Thank you so much for this video. I’m wanting to try basic video and fpv with the runcam 2 flatform camera recently purchased. It all seems confusing but I guess its all being tailored for open platform where one can pick and choose their on preference on components.
I know this is late in the day, but how about an audio feed if there is a mic in the camera? Thanks for all the great stuff. Particularly like the whiteboard bits.
Many people want to select the video from their HD cam and flight cam which means using a switch. I've had good luck with the Turnigy switch, but others say some are better. Reviewing and comparing different switches would be great, and clearly explaining the wiring. That escapes some people, especially when voltages differ with some gear.
Thanks for the video. Alot of this is so confusing when you are a noob. Wish i had some nice videos like this when i was starting out. I think another very confusing thing for me was how to wire in the cheapo osd's. Some of them just "tap" the video wire and some actually sit in between the camera and the vtx. drove me crazy at first.
Congratulations on the video. I used it to connect a camera to a drone. But I had a question: Can I connect the video signal from a HandyCam to this transmitter? Or what do I have to do to do it? Thank you.
"There are evil children in here and if they don't have an antenna they'll wreck it -- they'll break the crockery and smash the windows!" Best line ever xD
Hi, I'm just getting started into fpv, not typically race drones or rc controlled stuff, but just fpv itself. I feel like I need to buy a basic setup in order to understand what it does, and then attach it to an rc car and drive it around the house. ETC
I know motors can make a lot of electrical noise. Back when we still used the old CRT TVs they would get static if someone in the kitchen turned a blender on or something. I am glad those days are over.
Hi Bruce love the whiteboard concept. Can you explain how to use a Gopro 3 black as the camera in the Fpv setup? I also found a backup monitor and camera I had, can I use them? The monitor is for 2 cameras..lots of wires?.. Thanks
Great video. Thanks. Quick questions. My fpv cam has no mic (and the other one I have had a crap mic) My VTX has a green wire for a mic input. I have tried two different mics wired to the black and green wires but get no audio on the headphones on my fatsharks. Every video I've seen shows how to wire up the built in microphone in the fpv cam but how do I wire in a sepereate mic? Thanks Andy
Bruce as always good information and excellent quality. Would you be willing to do a how to for noobs on mounting a rc plane motor, with vertical and horizontal angles explained, lots of stuff on vertical force angle to cg on wings, but none on horizontal, for instance my scratch build is flying to right side ... not to the left as expected. So spacing the motor etc... would really appreciate it.
Thanks! Nice explanation. Can you please help me with this? If I'm powering both a 'camera' and a 'video transmitter' with electricity using the same 5V battery (let's say), should I calculate the current and voltage consumption of both devices to ensure they are appropriate for the specific battery? I'm a beginner :) Thanks in advance!
Great video! Thank you. I'm new to RC and trying to wire an fpv to my heng long tank. There are plenty of AIO camera setups but I'm hoping to wire it to the tank's power supply so that I don't have to have a separate battery for the camera. Any experience with the heng long tank boards?
Very interesting video, thank you. I hope that you don't mind me asking a question on video signal interfacing. It's a bit off topic for FPV but I hope that you can help me. I have a night vision rifle scope setup which uses a Sony 700 TVL camera providing the video signal to a 3.5 inch LCD monitor. What I would like to do is add video recording functionality by connecting up a mini DVR device which has video-in and video-out connections. Is it a simple case of picking up the video signal, say, from the board camera by adding a lead and running it to the video-in on the DVR then using the video-out from the DVR to pass the signal to the monitor. Thank's in anticipation.
Great video mate! Quick question: If I have 2 different cameras installed on a bigger quadcopter (let's say one on a gimbal and a fixed one), how can I attach both cameras to the same video transmitter? Where would the switch go that allows me to switch between cameras remotely? Thanks in advance!
Hi I love your vids, I’m in Timaru New Zealand and I’m just wanting to start out in Fpv .I want to start with a setup in a pt40 first , I’m old school balsa all the way , would you recommend a package that I would be able to run with ? My radio is futaba 2.4 Fasst system Kind regards Allan
Hello Bruce, first of all thank you for your precious explanations! I would ask you if in wiring a basic fpv system, I can take power from the balance connector on the main battery wich I will use for the esc controller and for the camera and video transmitter. I think that, if it is possible, would be a clean solution in wiring cables instead making joints on them. Best regards and greetings! Andrea.
Hi.Really enjoyed this video.I bought a 7"screen with built in receiver on 5.8 and an ilook walkera camera with built in tranni. Although they are on the same frequency choices according to their manuals I cannot get them to talk to each other. I can just about get a picture from a foot away but the frequencies dont then match. Any ideas please.Thanks Chris
I have a Quad I dismantled for parts and a new quad that I fly (same type). I want to put my spare FPV Camera and VTX from 1st quad onto my Radian 2m Glider. Mounting it all is fine, I have a plan for that. I just wondered, what would you do for power to make my VTX and Camera work? Would you put in a 2nd 3S to run them or would you make a "Y Connector" with XT60's to split the power from the flight battery so it powers everything? Or do you have a better way than these 2 options? Sorry, lots of "?'s" - your vid has certainly helped me understand the power supply thx. The Quad is an Eachine Wizard X220S, 700 TVL Camera and VTX has all the bands it's a decent one.
hi there! from the usa im really curious about adding in a OSD on my FPV setup can you do a diagram like this to help me ? this video is very helpful and showing how to add a simple osd will be amazingly helpfull
Hi Bruce , I have followed the mini quad build and its great , the only problem I am having is assigning the 3 position switch for my flight modes on my Hi-tech Aurora 9 , can you help please as I now you used one of these radios on the mxp230 many thanks Scott .
What are differences between the 600, 700, and 800 line resolutions, Pro's and Con's of course??? What do they cost??? What is 360??? What build do you recommend for each of them and do you have a link to buy them??? Please, keep making videos...
There's not actually a whole lot of difference between 600, 700 and 800 line resolutions. The limiting factor is usually the video transmitter/receiver and/or your video goggles. More important than resolution is "dynamic range" -- ie: light handling. Many of the higher-resolution cameras fall down badly here. Right now the best light-handling FPV camera on the market is the Runcam Eagle (there's a review on this channel).
Could you do a white board diagram on wiring up an OSD. I am using a Pixhawk with a Fatshark system and I want to put in a Minim OSD from Banggood. I am having trouble wrapping my brain around it.
Because of the popularity and the generally-compact size of the gear, decent 5.8Ghz gear isn't spendy. I got a $42 200mW Boscam set and a $8 cloverleaf set and the link is solid. I got them off ebay and not to say that there won't be lemons on there, but it at least goes to show they can be found at a good price
I have a couple mini cameras coming from HK, only 520TVL but wide angle and good with low light so I'm gonna set those up on a tilt setup through the naze
Hi Bruce, thanks for the informative video. I have a Lumenier TX5G6 transmitter which has a 5V out and want to power a mini cam model: MC900-V9 which requires 5V to operate and only has 3 wires out (red, black, yellow). They're actually attached to the board, no pin connectors. I'm clear on connecting the video (yellow wire) and power (red wire) from the TX to matching color wires on the camera, however, I'm not clear on where to ground the camera's ground wire. Can it be bridged with the TX ground wire? Thanks Bruce
Off topic of this video but I'm needing some advice. Here's my scenerio... 4200xl excavator has 4 esc's. 1 for the hydraulic pump 2 for the tracks 1 for the turret. I just replaced the track and turret esc's with hobbywing wp1060s. All 4 are fed from 1 battery. So the question I have is about feeding power to the rx. Each esc has a bec. I can not find a definate one way or the other of whether i should remove the red wire on 3 of the esc's or not. Rx is a FS-IA10B. Please advise and maybe explain why. Thank you in advance
Thanks for your time on this vid and yr other one.s.my old racestar f4x4 aio dont have osd so i needed to learn this hookup method..thank.s again...cheer.s ron..i subbed to you allso..
Just to be totally explicit. DO NOT connect a Fatshark or any 5V maximum camera to the 12V or "bad things will happen". There are cameras out there that will take more than 12V and still work all the way down to 5V making them very versatile. Remember to keep any documentation for any components you buy and match them to the specific components so if you later reuse a particular component you will have a useful reference when reconnecting it into another model with perhaps higher voltages like 4S or more. Another neat feature appearing on some brands of VTX is a jumper to select 5V or Battery voltage out. These jumpers are not generally well documented so proceed with caution. Even the most basic multimeter is almost essential for this kind of work. Plenty of videos here on the tube showing how to use a multimeter. For $20 or more you will have a tool with a multitude of uses in RC. Just don't connect a real cheapy to the mains.
***** From my experience most VTX's have a 5V out. But some also include an option to pass the battery voltage direct. If you are getting 12V out look for a 3 pin jumper on the VTX and move the bridge to the other side and you should now have 5V out. Just be sure to check before connecting the camera. If all else fails you may be able to get 5V from the BEC built into most ESC's or add a separate 5V ubec.
I think most modern VTX cameras take positive from the VTX , not directly from the battery , is that due to a smaller voltage requirement of modern cams ?
Great content - I have a query from my diatone sp2 the vtx is on and the camera is black - the camera works ok on my other setup?? But not with this vtx? The power is 4s. Any thoughts?
I have a question? what's the point of the yellow wire, like I've seen fpv cameras without the yellow wire and so if I have only 2 solder points: a positive and a negative do I need the yellow wire and if so where would it go. Thanks in advance and great video!
Usually if the camera unit has only two wires (assumed positive and ground), it contains its own transmitter, no separate one needed. The yellow is usually the video signal going to the separate video transmitter.
if im wiring gopr with its own power then i just eliminate the positive going to the camera on your white board? do i still need black wire. along with yellow? thankyou! like your vids.
Would you add connectors anywhere in the wiring to make it possible to remove the FPV system? If so, what connectors would you use and where would you add them?
Some people still use deans connectors? LOL dem's fightin' words!!! Like I am stuck in the stone ages..bwahaha.. (maybe I am) I am just teasing. Thanks for the breakdown for the new fpv prospects. Love this channel... and Deans plugs ;)
***** hah.. I agree,.. I love deans plugs,... I hear people putting them down constantly, saying they come apart. I've never had an issue, and if you retighten them every few times they will last forever. so much better than plugs that are so hard to connect/ disconnect, that when you want to disconnect quickly you often over pull and cause stress on the batt and model wiring. I like that I can connect/ disconnect with one hand, especially when I'm doing ESC calibrating on the KK board. Deans all the way..!!
Great video, It inspired me to hook up my basic FPV set up. I did it just as you did and I have nothing but fuzz. Does this mean I need a filter, if so what kind of filter do I need? Thanks in advance.
vansteelerfan Try adding some capacitors. Does it happen when you rev the motors or just normally? Also make sure the RX and TX are on the same channel.
FightingFlight `Thanks for the help ,channels are correct ,not even in a plane yet. Believe it is a camera issue. Gonna order a new camera and see what happens.
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BEST video I've EVER seen for beginners like me. Absolutely brilliant mate!
As a novice just in the research phase before building his first quad, your videos are a godsend. Really informative and helps take some of the worry out of a process that looks incredibly daunting to the beginner.
I really appreciate your continued support of the hobby. I, for one, find your information tremendously valuable!
Great video Bruce! It is so easy a child can do it... I'm 15 and I did it yesterday! :D
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I'm going to do this for my boeing 777 I'm also 15, lol
Excellent video that still stands on its own 5 years later. Cheers mate!
Sorry Bruce, but I have a serious bone to pick with you! Since watching your "budget" mini-quad build I've spent over $1200 on parts to build one/several (I needed everything even transmitter and tools). You have seriously motivated me to not just watch all these videos of FPV insanity but to get my lazy, middle-aged ass into it. I've not been this excited, since being a child with a batman blow up bridge toy, waiting for my parts to trickle in. The next challenge is how to hide the expenditure from the finance minister (wife) but I have my ways.
Seriously. Thanks. Your videos are amazingly motivating and the retail people should be paying you a fortune to show there stuff.... oh, where did I put my Credi Card?
MashO Matic LOL! totally get you, way past the $1200 so i stopped counting how much i spend. As for the credit card, go grocery shopping and check out each item individually. This will create a bill so long wife will be lazy to read.
simonTemplar
G'day,
You may be intrrested in a brainfart I had regarding R/C Models...; they almost all cost more per actual hour of Airtime than whatever actual Aircraft they're representing, and to even approach that then the Model needs to fly for at least one hour.
Eg, my son paid $250 for an Electric Pitts Special "Python", and if it flies for an hour then it's not far off the hourly cost of flying a real Pitts...; because it flew a 3-second Loop due to a frozen Elevator Servo, then unless it gets repaired and put back into the Sky to change the equation, it flew at a cost of $300,000 per Hour - and that's getting into Space-Shuttle like decadence...
This is why I still fly an almost 14 year-old CC Lee Falcon, it ticked over 28 hours aloft yesterday, so it's now worked it's Cost down to only $8.57 per hour..., including materials used in repairs (it's carrying 3 Ounces of Epoxy & Woven Fibreglass Cloth & clear Tape, 20% overload on the original T/O Weight of a Pound.).
How many Hours does a Quad fly for, before it's not worth persisting with ?
I'm waiting for a pack of 8 sets of new Prop's to arrive, before I even begin to try to learn to fly the Hubsan X-4...
;-p
Ciao !
WarblesOnALot I was thinking about that. If I had started again knowing what I know now what would be the two RC aircraft and RC equipment I would buy and keep and then buy no more. I'm constantly trying different foamy FPV planes and havn't yet found one I really like. Mind you I try and keep the costs down to a degree although I tend to use higher end FPV electrics such as ImmersionRC gear since its reliable.
stewjw
G'day,
Thanks,
Yeah, I tend to operate off at the other end of the market, and the Cheapies are often so severely "Production-Engineered" to keep costs down that the sometimes fairly radical Aerodynamic Loopholes the Designer was intending them to fly through can be really small ; so it's a case of thinking really hard about how it looks as if it'll behave, prior to putting it up where it can crash, because a lot have only got one prang in them.
An outlier is a $50 thing called a Sky Hero, only 11.5 inches in length and span (so as to fit in a 1-foot box ?), with a Ducted Fan on each Wingtip, 2 Channels and incredibly twitchy in Roll...; but it does have digital proportional Double Throttles, with L/R Trim, so it can Maintain Level Flight, Climb, or Glide under Power while retaining Asymetric Thrust for directional control... (power-off it simply glides as trimmed, but it requires some Throttle or there's no "Turning").
But it's made from some "leathery" kind of Foam, incredibly tough, I've spent a day shooting one out of a Treetop with a Rubber Catapault and 1-Ounce Rocks and though it lost 1 Square Inch of Trailing-Edge at a Wingroot it still glided almost straight - though it had been hit so hard on the Radio Reciever the Wax was shaken out of the RX Antenna Coil... And it literally cannot fly fast enough, to be able to crash hard enough, to damage the Airframe.
A pity it needs Dead Calm to fly well, I actually got a second one to replace the one I shot the Radio out of...
So, to me, the Hubsan X-4 is a throbbing challenge...; if I muff it then $250 can fly away and disappear from sight in the Regrowth Forest I live in.., or go up and then descend too fast and succumb to Rotor-Decay, and arrive like a white Stone..., amidst the Bassalt Rocks sticking up in the neighbouring Sheep-Paddock.
Sadly, the first flight is always the riskiest, like the Pitts Python at $300,000 per Hour for 3 seconds.
I suspect that for $10 more, they could've built the Pitts out of the same Leathery Foam the Sky-Hero is moulded from, and it would've pretty much bounced off the ground undamaged, instead of shattering at every Stress-point.
Still, if it gets too scary, I can always have a few hours of fun with a well-folded sheet of A-4 Paper.... (check my "Aeromodelling For Children" Playlist, for the "World's Best Paper Aeroplane..." video, it has self-adjusting Variable Geometry, changing it's own Span and Area according to Airspeed, devilish cunning actually !)..., probably the most Cost-Effective Flying Model of all...?!?
Have a good one,
;-p
Ciao !
+MashO Matic .......... Oh.... I hear you brother..... in UK the finance minister (missus) is glad that I have a new hobby, but unaware (as of yet) about the costs..... I shall blame it all on Bruce too.
Pleasent voice, noiseless (( no music :) ) presentation ( +10 ).Ty for all your knowledge sharing.
I love the whiteboard videos! My son and I (mostly me!) are following along with the budget miniquad build, and are learning a lot, thank you so much Bruce. As far as funding yourself, I'd rather see your channel keep the same open format, but perhaps supplemented with some sort of subscription for those of us who can afford it (Patreon?).
This type of video is very helpful. I'm a little dyslexic and find it hard to follow diagram an book stuff so this is a very good video foe me. Thanks Bruce.
Great video. People like you make it a lot easier for the rest of us to learn. Top job...
Love FPV so much that even though I've done this countless times in many configurations, I still watched and enjoyed it!!
eric deherrera Me too!
eric deherrera me three .. LOL
Me four :D
eric deherrera As did i lol. I am wiring my Minim and naze whilst watching lol
73, de M6EXH
FlyerDan Put a switch between the RX+TX wires from the naze otherwise you will have troubles when you try and hookup a USB to the naze, because they share the same wires. WIthout the switch, both will try and talk on the rx/tx lines and the usb wont work.
May not be rocket science to you, but for a total noob like me, it was just what i needed.
Hi Bruce, just starting in rc , and have found your video's not only a great help but a lot of fun. Keep up the the good work. Thanks a lot.
Who's still here in 2021? Gotta love Bruce's white board classics!!
Great video Bruce, basic instruction videos are great for beginners. Liked and looking forward to more.
Great vid! Some times all I need is simply simple! Keep them coming.
Always a pleasure to watch your videos Bruce, I have just orders the parts to begin my first FPV maiden flight.
Cheers
Thank you for making this video, now I can get fpv up an running on a new build. It’s my first, thanks again
Thanks Bruce. Very clear and easy explanation.
Cheers mate,
John
AWESOME info for the beginner! maybe have links in the description to your other videos that way people can go watch more great videos!
Walter White teaches FPV :)
Another awesome video!
Thanks Bruce! This vid came at the exact right time for me!
Random comment..... I use Traxxas connectors... They simply work and don't stuff up.
(if somehow u broke it)
Because the terminals come out of the housing they are very easy to solder in the field and they don't require any heatshrink...
Maintenance wise they are years ahead... With a small screwdriver u can push the terminals out of the housing so they can be cleaned. This can easily be done on both male and female connectors.
The housing is easy to grip to disconnect the battery, no more pulling on wires
Current handling.... They can handle massive amounts of current draw as seen in the surface vehicles, I'm talking current draw a mini quad could only dream of... Things like a VXL stampede or a x01....
Bruce, u should try a Traxxas connector... Once u go black u won't go back (to red or yellow)
Very nice draw mr Bruce. Keep up god job.
Brilliant video as always.
Some cameras have 4 wires Bruce. The white is audio in for the vtx. Most people ground it to the black. What are your thoughts?
I'm starting now in this world.. and I might say... This is an incredible video... well explained as the low budget FPV drone... it's a pity that here in europe is very expensive and we are having so much trouble with products imported from china... I've just one question... in which frequency does this VTX works. .. is it 5.8 or 1.4 ghz?
Great video! Please, more white board videos!! Best!
love these types of tutorials, thank you sir.
Thank you so much for this video. I’m wanting to try basic video and fpv with the runcam 2 flatform camera recently purchased. It all seems confusing but I guess its all being tailored for open platform where one can pick and choose their on preference on components.
Thank you Bruce made it so easy to understand
I know this is late in the day, but how about an audio feed if there is a mic in the camera? Thanks for all the great stuff. Particularly like the whiteboard bits.
Many people want to select the video from their HD cam and flight cam which means using a switch. I've had good luck with the Turnigy switch, but others say some are better. Reviewing and comparing different switches would be great, and clearly explaining the wiring. That escapes some people, especially when voltages differ with some gear.
Thanks for the video. Alot of this is so confusing when you are a noob. Wish i had some nice videos like this when i was starting out. I think another very confusing thing for me was how to wire in the cheapo osd's. Some of them just "tap" the video wire and some actually sit in between the camera and the vtx. drove me crazy at first.
Congratulations on the video. I used it to connect a camera to a drone. But I had a question: Can I connect the video signal from a HandyCam to this transmitter? Or what do I have to do to do it? Thank you.
"There are evil children in here and if they don't have an antenna they'll wreck it -- they'll break the crockery and smash the windows!"
Best line ever xD
Keep up the good work! Love it!
Great work Brucey, used this in my blog
I love watching your videos keep up the good work....
Thanks a lot for explaining, sir!
Bruce I hope you can do a video in setting up a Minim osd.
Great video Bruce this will really help people new to the hobby.
ATB Malc
Team Nana UK Division
RCTV-UK Hehe... I had to look up ATB.
ATB Mate... :-)
Hi, I'm just getting started into fpv, not typically race drones or rc controlled stuff, but just fpv itself. I feel like I need to buy a basic setup in order to understand what it does, and then attach it to an rc car and drive it around the house. ETC
Thank you I have been going crazy on how I was going to wire this.
I know motors can make a lot of electrical noise. Back when we still used the old CRT TVs they would get static if someone in the kitchen turned a blender on or something. I am glad those days are over.
wow, you just cleared up any and every confusion I had with this! The video was great and your drawings were wayyyyy better than I could do :)
Hi Bruce love the whiteboard concept.
Can you explain how to use a Gopro 3 black as the camera in the Fpv setup?
I also found a backup monitor and camera I had, can I use them? The monitor is for 2 cameras..lots of wires?..
Thanks
First! Greetings from the Netherlands. Keep them coming!
Thank you Bruce. Even my wife understands this! (ah oh; DID I SAY THAT OR JUST THINK IT )
Really helpful thanks for sharing.
Loved it my Friend!
........"Always put your antenna on, there are evil children in here. They will break your crockery and smash your windows."------- Love it!!!!!!
Great video. Thanks.
Quick questions.
My fpv cam has no mic (and the other one I have had a crap mic)
My VTX has a green wire for a mic input.
I have tried two different mics wired to the black and green wires but get no audio on the headphones on my fatsharks.
Every video I've seen shows how to wire up the built in microphone in the fpv cam but how do I wire in a sepereate mic?
Thanks
Andy
Awesome. Got everything I needed from the video. The solder iron is heating up as we speak......
Well...that's hot.
Bruce as always good information and excellent quality.
Would you be willing to do a how to for noobs on mounting a rc plane motor, with vertical and horizontal angles explained, lots of stuff on vertical force angle to cg on wings, but none on horizontal, for instance my scratch build is flying to right side ... not to the left as expected. So spacing the motor etc... would really appreciate it.
Excellent lesson,,, well done..
Thanks! Nice explanation. Can you please help me with this? If I'm powering both a 'camera' and a 'video transmitter' with electricity using the same 5V battery (let's say), should I calculate the current and voltage consumption of both devices to ensure they are appropriate for the specific battery? I'm a beginner :) Thanks in advance!
Nice straight forward Video...cheers
Thanks for this explanation, easy to understand!
Great video! Thank you. I'm new to RC and trying to wire an fpv to my heng long tank. There are plenty of AIO camera setups but I'm hoping to wire it to the tank's power supply so that I don't have to have a separate battery for the camera.
Any experience with the heng long tank boards?
Great stuff!! Now can you do one for an OSD as well? Thanks again for a very informative video!
Very interesting video, thank you. I hope that you don't mind me asking a question on video signal interfacing. It's a bit off topic for FPV but I hope that you can help me. I have a night vision rifle scope setup which uses a Sony 700 TVL camera providing the video signal to a 3.5 inch LCD monitor. What I would like to do is add video recording functionality by connecting up a mini DVR device which has video-in and video-out connections. Is it a simple case of picking up the video signal, say, from the board camera by adding a lead and running it to the video-in on the DVR then using the video-out from the DVR to pass the signal to the monitor. Thank's in anticipation.
Great video mate!
Quick question: If I have 2 different cameras installed on a bigger quadcopter (let's say one on a gimbal and a fixed one), how can I attach both cameras to the same video transmitter? Where would the switch go that allows me to switch between cameras remotely?
Thanks in advance!
really good video helped a lot.
Hi I love your vids, I’m in Timaru New Zealand and I’m just wanting to start out in Fpv .I want to start with a setup in a pt40 first , I’m old school balsa all the way , would you recommend a package that I would be able to run with ?
My radio is futaba 2.4 Fasst system
Kind regards Allan
you may be old but you are a bad ass Engineer . thanks Bruce now I subscribe !
Hello Bruce, first of all thank you for your precious explanations! I would ask you if in wiring a basic fpv system, I can take power from the balance connector on the main battery wich I will use for the esc controller and for the camera and video transmitter. I think that, if it is possible, would be a clean solution in wiring cables instead making joints on them. Best regards and greetings! Andrea.
Hi.Really enjoyed this video.I bought a 7"screen with built in receiver on 5.8 and an ilook walkera camera with built in tranni. Although they are on the same frequency choices according to their manuals I cannot get them to talk to each other. I can just about get a picture from a foot away but the frequencies dont then match. Any ideas please.Thanks Chris
I have a Quad I dismantled for parts and a new quad that I fly (same type). I want to put my spare FPV Camera and VTX from 1st quad onto my Radian 2m Glider. Mounting it all is fine, I have a plan for that. I just wondered, what would you do for power to make my VTX and Camera work? Would you put in a 2nd 3S to run them or would you make a "Y Connector" with XT60's to split the power from the flight battery so it powers everything? Or do you have a better way than these 2 options? Sorry, lots of "?'s" - your vid has certainly helped me understand the power supply thx. The Quad is an Eachine Wizard X220S, 700 TVL Camera and VTX has all the bands it's a decent one.
@5.35 I think I heard a charger go off... Always Ready is our Bruce.. lol
hi there! from the usa im really curious about adding in a OSD on my FPV setup can you do a diagram like this to help me ? this video is very helpful and showing how to add a simple osd will be amazingly helpfull
Hi Bruce , I have followed the mini quad build and its great , the only problem I am having is assigning the 3 position switch for my flight modes on my Hi-tech Aurora 9 , can you help please as I now you used one of these radios on the mxp230 many thanks Scott .
Good basic video, but what about the audio transmission with that same setup? thanks
What are differences between the 600, 700, and 800 line resolutions, Pro's and Con's of course???
What do they cost??? What is 360???
What build do you recommend for each of them and do you have a link to buy them???
Please, keep making videos...
There's not actually a whole lot of difference between 600, 700 and 800 line resolutions. The limiting factor is usually the video transmitter/receiver and/or your video goggles. More important than resolution is "dynamic range" -- ie: light handling. Many of the higher-resolution cameras fall down badly here. Right now the best light-handling FPV camera on the market is the Runcam Eagle (there's a review on this channel).
Could you do a white board diagram on wiring up an OSD. I am using a Pixhawk with a Fatshark system and I want to put in a Minim OSD from Banggood. I am having trouble wrapping my brain around it.
Great video! Do you know of a way to test the video transmitter? I think I have one that is burned out but I don't know how to tell.
How about a continuation video working with the goggles and head tracking for this setup?
Great video,as always!
Don't know what I would have done in the beginning with out you haha...
Apropros the filter, does twisting the positive and negative wires together not have a similar effect in rejecting common mode noise?
What about the receiver end?
Because of the popularity and the generally-compact size of the gear, decent 5.8Ghz gear isn't spendy. I got a $42 200mW Boscam set and a $8 cloverleaf set and the link is solid. I got them off ebay and not to say that there won't be lemons on there, but it at least goes to show they can be found at a good price
BashMonkeyRC i agree thats why its a good idea at that price to buy a few extra setups.. i always try to by 2 Tx's and 2 600 tv line cams at a time.
I have a couple mini cameras coming from HK, only 520TVL but wide angle and good with low light so I'm gonna set those up on a tilt setup through the naze
Hi Bruce, thanks for the informative video. I have a Lumenier TX5G6 transmitter which has a 5V out and want to power a mini cam model: MC900-V9 which requires 5V to operate and only has 3 wires out (red, black, yellow). They're actually attached to the board, no pin connectors. I'm clear on connecting the video (yellow wire) and power (red wire) from the TX to matching color wires on the camera, however, I'm not clear on where to ground the camera's ground wire. Can it be bridged with the TX ground wire? Thanks Bruce
it would have been great if you had continued on how to connect it to a monitor to complete this very good video?
Off topic of this video but I'm needing some advice. Here's my scenerio... 4200xl excavator has 4 esc's. 1 for the hydraulic pump 2 for the tracks 1 for the turret. I just replaced the track and turret esc's with hobbywing wp1060s. All 4 are fed from 1 battery. So the question I have is about feeding power to the rx. Each esc has a bec. I can not find a definate one way or the other of whether i should remove the red wire on 3 of the esc's or not. Rx is a FS-IA10B. Please advise and maybe explain why. Thank you in advance
Thanks for your time on this vid and yr other one.s.my old racestar f4x4 aio dont have osd so i needed to learn this hookup method..thank.s again...cheer.s ron..i subbed to you allso..
Just to be totally explicit. DO NOT connect a Fatshark or any 5V maximum camera to the 12V or "bad things will happen". There are cameras out there that will take more than 12V and still work all the way down to 5V making them very versatile. Remember to keep any documentation for any components you buy and match them to the specific components so if you later reuse a particular component you will have a useful reference when reconnecting it into another model with perhaps higher voltages like 4S or more.
Another neat feature appearing on some brands of VTX is a jumper to select 5V or Battery voltage out. These jumpers are not generally well documented so proceed with caution.
Even the most basic multimeter is almost essential for this kind of work. Plenty of videos here on the tube showing how to use a multimeter. For $20 or more you will have a tool with a multitude of uses in RC. Just don't connect a real cheapy to the mains.
Rob B And if the camera work on 5V and the VTX voltage out put is the voltage of the 3S battery ? How to reduce the voltage to 5V ?
***** From my experience most VTX's have a 5V out. But some also include an option to pass the battery voltage direct. If you are getting 12V out look for a 3 pin jumper on the VTX and move the bridge to the other side and you should now have 5V out. Just be sure to check before connecting the camera. If all else fails you may be able to get 5V from the BEC built into most ESC's or add a separate 5V ubec.
Rob B Thank you Rob !
What about grounding the audio? for latency reasons I've read some where haven't been able to do it maybe a video of how and why?
Nice vid
How would you plug a video recorder? Would you put it next to the camera, or plug it onto the receiver?
Is the noise dependent on the signal strengt? What I mean is will it be more critial with a power filter if you're flying further away?
I think most modern VTX cameras take positive from the VTX , not directly from the battery , is that due to a smaller voltage requirement of modern cams ?
Great content - I have a query from my diatone sp2 the vtx is on and the camera is black - the camera works ok on my other setup?? But not with this vtx? The power is 4s. Any thoughts?
don't forget the link to the sony 600tvl camera, bruce. please..
thanks for another great video.
I have a question? what's the point of the yellow wire, like I've seen fpv cameras without the yellow wire and so if I have only 2 solder points: a positive and a negative do I need the yellow wire and if so where would it go. Thanks in advance and great video!
Usually if the camera unit has only two wires (assumed positive and ground), it contains its own transmitter, no separate one needed. The yellow is usually the video signal going to the separate video transmitter.
@@55yxalaG oh now I get it thanks for helping the new guy out!
@@mr.animegod_yt No problem!
if im wiring gopr with its own power then i just eliminate the positive going to the camera on your white board? do i still need black wire. along with yellow? thankyou! like your vids.
Hi Bruce! I would like to know your explanation in carbon fibre interference with the rest of the electronics.
Thanks.
Would you add connectors anywhere in the wiring to make it possible to remove the FPV system? If so, what connectors would you use and where would you add them?
Some people still use deans connectors? LOL dem's fightin' words!!! Like I am stuck in the stone ages..bwahaha.. (maybe I am) I am just teasing. Thanks for the breakdown for the new fpv prospects. Love this channel... and Deans plugs ;)
***** hah.. I agree,.. I love deans plugs,... I hear people putting them down constantly, saying they come apart. I've never had an issue, and if you retighten them every few times they will last forever. so much better than plugs that are so hard to connect/ disconnect, that when you want to disconnect quickly you often over pull and cause stress on the batt and model wiring. I like that I can connect/ disconnect with one hand, especially when I'm doing ESC calibrating on the KK board. Deans all the way..!!
Great video, It inspired me to hook up my basic FPV set up. I did it just as you did and I have nothing but fuzz. Does this mean I need a filter, if so what kind of filter do I need? Thanks in advance.
vansteelerfan Try adding some capacitors. Does it happen when you rev the motors or just normally? Also make sure the RX and TX are on the same channel.
FightingFlight `Thanks for the help ,channels are correct ,not even in a plane yet. Believe it is a camera issue. Gonna order a new camera and see what happens.
how about adding an external microphone...would that be the mic's red lead to the Vtx audio lead and black to ground?
Thank you very much, this really helps me a lot. :)