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Ketch Rossi
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Cool Rome,
As for your observations/questions:
1) The motors hum when their strength setting is inadequate to the payload, play around with the numbers on the motors of each axis till the humming goes away completely, there should be silent operation, so play with it, but be sure that once you did the best balancing permitted by your set up, you always run the Auto Tune and Calibration first, this should almost always do the trick for you, if not then do as I suggested.
2) Yes carrying over 20LB/25LB of gear in your open extended arms is not easy, you need to have some upper body strength, a work out 3 times per week for Arms and Shoulders would be ideal, and including some lower back routines would be also smart...
3) The XL arms Kit is one thing I suggested and strongly wished for one for a reason, now lets hope that DJI gets out sooner then later, but also do keep in mind that with the center of gravity further away form your body, the rig will fill much heavier on your arms, and your hands will also fill this the most, and so will your wrists, so an Easy-Rig like system will be a must to pick up most of the slack.
4) As I said Rome, the humming needs to go away with proper Tuning/Calibrating, done first in Auto mode, and then if need to by you on each individual Axis Motor, you need to play with the settings and your set up to see were you need to be.
Similar set up: Let me try to go a bit further on explaining this point as well as it really makes a HUGE difference balancing a camera set up form an other, even if we have similar set up, meaning we both use the Epic, the Xenon, and the VIV MB, is to see if you and I both use 2 4x4.65 Filters, + one 138mm Round filter, what accessories are we using, what type of Motor for FF, what type of Wirelesses receiver and controller for it, and what about Wireless transmitter for Monitoring, Battery weight and size, even when using both V-Lock batteries and so on.
Each of this items, even at the same weight and size, will change drastically the way balancing occurs and the way the weight gets distributed, deepening on were and how they are mounted on the camera.
Using a hand held stabilization system is surely easier then using a Steady Cam, and balancing is some what easier too, but still has a learning curve, which is easier or harder depending on Gimbal used, since I have used Hand Held stabilization system for years, and have palled around with as many as they came out, including now 6 different Brushless Gimbals, I can say with great confidence that while the Ronin is surely not the easiest and fastest one to set up, it is most absolutely one of the very fastest and easy to set up and operate, yet it is a unique Gimbal given the different modes it allows it's end user to operate with, and this makes that extra special.
...I'm going on a diet and starting to workout tomorrow lol!! Still, an Easyrig would be optimal...I just wish they weren't so expensive, especially given that there's another piece you might need to attach to the arm of the Easyrig rod to work properly with these gimbals (I remember reading that in another thread on here...and thats almost as much as an Easyrig!).
