In Adelaide I'd occasionally have a cold can. It's very refreshing if you drink it nice and fast.
Data collection for FPV distance
- Thread starter lobstermash
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Sorry for hijacking your thread, lobster. I was enjoying the heck out of my night! 
treadd
Uber N00b
I'll be flying out in the California desert this Sunday, and can contribute info for a scratch-built, 60" wingspan ExAir inspired foam twin boom plane. I'm running 5.8 500mw for video with CL/SP antennas, and stock 2.4 rx/tx antennas.
Here's a vid of where I normally fly- In the middle of the San Fernando Valley at the Apollo XI RC field. (North of Los Angeles) I haven't been able to push the envelope as far as distance at this field for obvious reasons, hence heading out to a much less populated area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Kbgx8FEJQ
Here's a vid of where I normally fly- In the middle of the San Fernando Valley at the Apollo XI RC field. (North of Los Angeles) I haven't been able to push the envelope as far as distance at this field for obvious reasons, hence heading out to a much less populated area.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Kbgx8FEJQ
No worries teach (I can seek retribution with glydr elsewhere... Maybe he can source me a glass of Zierholz).
Thanks Treadd, your data would be great!
Thanks Treadd, your data would be great!
Nonamerc
Arman
Nonamerc
Arman
I hope some people got out for some FPV this weekend... I took the FPV gear off the Bix and went sloping in the crazy wind. I was enjoying it until it kicked up a notch to about 50-60km/h! I had almost gone with the FPV gear, but relented. Wise choice.
treadd
Uber N00b
Ack! What a bad rc citizen I am! I ended up not making it out to fly that weekend. Been working on a new project, the HK FPV-168, which I maidened this morning...and didnt crash! lol yay! I was super nervous, as this is my first ARF I've bought and built. 5.5lbs AUW, and lots of fiberglass and balsa...there would be no foam to glue or bend back if I crashed this one!
But here is an interesting thing I noticed. On the foam twin boom, the GPS module and vtx were about 12 inches away from each other, and GPS signal took a few minutes to get a good lock. Video would start to get static at about 1 mile with stock antennas. (5.8 400mw). Now I have the GPS and video transmitter about 30 inches apart, and the GPS picks up a lock in less than a minute. Point being, I may have been reducing video/control/gps strength by having everything too close together. But I will find out soon what the net gain is. (And to try out the CP antennas)
Wont be able to fly FPV for another week, as the guy at work I borrow the GoPro from is on vacation and took the camera with him. Until then, its LOS practice flying on the new airframe, and working out various transmitter tasks to dial everything in just right.
But here is an interesting thing I noticed. On the foam twin boom, the GPS module and vtx were about 12 inches away from each other, and GPS signal took a few minutes to get a good lock. Video would start to get static at about 1 mile with stock antennas. (5.8 400mw). Now I have the GPS and video transmitter about 30 inches apart, and the GPS picks up a lock in less than a minute. Point being, I may have been reducing video/control/gps strength by having everything too close together. But I will find out soon what the net gain is. (And to try out the CP antennas)
Wont be able to fly FPV for another week, as the guy at work I borrow the GoPro from is on vacation and took the camera with him. Until then, its LOS practice flying on the new airframe, and working out various transmitter tasks to dial everything in just right.
Don't feel like a bad rc citizen... Nobody has put any data in the spreadsheet yet... The last couple of weeks have been awfully windy down the east coast of Australia, especially on weekends.
My OSD should arrive this week and I can get some data myself. I'm thinking we'll gain some momentum once the first few entries trickle in. It's also hard to get in the habit of collecting data (I've helped run a recreational fishing survey, which included community data collection similar to this). But once people start doing it, they realise how useful it is for their own benefit as well as the project's.
My OSD should arrive this week and I can get some data myself. I'm thinking we'll gain some momentum once the first few entries trickle in. It's also hard to get in the habit of collecting data (I've helped run a recreational fishing survey, which included community data collection similar to this). But once people start doing it, they realise how useful it is for their own benefit as well as the project's.
Very cool. Yeah, 2.4 is usually reserved for the hardcore, serious FPV pilots! I'd love to have some good data on that!
Nonamerc
Arman
I can ask some more guys like rockyflyr about his records.
@Carbon On your website you say 433ghz which should be changed to 433mhz also you say that you are going to use a 300mah 3 cell. (Maybe a 3000mah 3 cell?)
Nonamerc
Arman
I have no osd and this is what I use for measuring the distance that I flew:
http://www.daftlogic.com/projects-google-maps-distance-calculator.htm
Rockyflyer:
16km with the lawmate 500mw 2.4 GHz vtx. He also used the lawmate receiver. He used dragonlink for his RC controlls. No lc filter, this flight was with a zephyr 2
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Carbon
Elemental Madness
Thanks! I missed that
Still no data added to the spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApqXMzvBbsbddHdkTGpWWFV6TFBwYmxVWkJpNVB3d1E#gid=0
I'll start adding my own soon, now that I've got an OSD.
I'll start adding my own soon, now that I've got an OSD.
Yeah, that's OK I guess. The more info I have the more powerful the statistical analyses I can do.
Nonamerc
Arman
Maybe its an idea to backup the spreadsheet every 2 weeks or so. There may be 'trolls' who are going to delete or change some of the data...
