Quadcopter successes and failures

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Travis Smith

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Aug 2, 2012, 7:26:02 PM8/2/12
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For day one of the staycation, I decided to get my FPV setup working for the quad, and generally upgrade my rig.

Successes:
Velcroed all batteries and transmitter.
Noticed the antenna wire had been severed on the transmitter, opened it up and re-soldered the antenna. 
Reinserted all the pins for the channels.  Works like a charm.
Soldered all the wiring for the FPV transmitter.  Tedious, but finished!

Failures:
Hooked everything up (headset, camera, receiver, transmitter) and it doesn't work.  I suspect a protocol problem between the camera and the FPV bit.
After which...I flew the quad and crashed it hard, breaking yet another reverse prop.  I now have 1 remaining.

Conclusions:
I'm still not so hot at flying.
I could use a bit of help.
We might want to do a mass order from hobby king for props.

So, if you're curious about FPV, please help me.  Once we get it working, we could either mount it on the quad or any of the RC cars in the shop to try it out.  As usual, I will forever be in your debt!  Also, I'm pretty sure the wiring is correct...it looks like most of the trouble shooting will have to do with video format and the like.

Travis
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