George Nathanson
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Lots of things that can improve performance on the RS2. We gone a bit nuts with the 3d printer lately. Made these bits and bobs, that makes huge difference.
new dovetail that is low profile, low weight an offset the camera 35mm to the pasenger side, which allows for bigger heavier setups without having to add roll counter weights. Simply put the camera is placed way to high and way to far to the driver side with the original dove tail that also does not have proper mounting points for counter weights. You want to be able to put your counter weights as far back and down as possible without hitting the roll motor. So preferably you want the weights placed as shown in this video... now here is a small lens in use but a big heavy lens works very well.
Then we also moved power out of the gimbal. Simply it flies way better this way. also the power port on the Komodo is not so well placed, a lemo connector sticks out right where you don't want it, even if you use an angled connector the way we made it we fit the Vaxis Atom and we get Dtap or 2pin lemo out on board, still it does not make the camera longer than if we only had a angled power lemo in the camera. And this way we can fly with any focus motor on board and we can choose to power with Dtap or 2pin lemo. The V power plate we made has 2x 2pin female lemo or 2pin female lemo and female Dtap.
Then we made another V power mount thingy that mounts to the Dji arm. Where a V-lock battery can be mounted and it has, Dtap out, 2pin lemo out and usb out. The usb is nice as it can charge the phone. Kind of needed to have power for the phone if shooting for long days. It can also charge the actual gimbal battery as well so simply all that needs to be swapped power vice during a shooting day is Vlocks. Hate to fiddle with multiple chargers, batteries etc.
Then we also did these little biscuits. Good to have when you want to add power to the vaxis or what ever Vlock Male connector without adding the weight of a battery and also stay slim. It was the iteration before we removed the Vlock back all together from the vaxis. But its still a good solution when not wanting to fiddle with the screws for the vaxis backplate.
Then I did some of these, lightweight mounts for 15 and 12mm rods. it slim enough to sit on the revolva on the passenger. side with the camera moved over. So all weight is to the right. Which is good, it makes it possible to push together on the tilt axis and makes the gimbal more rigid so it holds together further when calibrating big setups.
Another cookie lakrits mint...
Björn Benckert[/url], on Flickr
Dove tail from underneath.
Also here not the best picture but as the Dji focus can not run lenses with traveling focus gears we made a gearbox thingy with a wide gear so we can fly really fat lenses. It's up there in the corner.
And here is a picture of the 2pin lemo Dtap V power plate. Where the camera and vaxis is feed with a single Dtap. Quite nice to actually have such setup for hand held. Camera gets super small and I can have a small Vlock in my pocket and it's nice to have the camera with a nice round ass.
Untitled by Björn Benckert, on Flickr
next we are getting some flushed antennas for the vaxis as those are what hits the gimbal first when tilting huge setups, getting low profile antennas lets us move the camera at least like 10-15mm further back which is huge.
This was went into the oven during the weekend takes about 130 hours to print a whole kit with side handle phone mount and the whole enchilada
That is one wild handle!! :blink:
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