outthayr
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I put together a rough assembly and tested everything, TBS nano signal was coming through strong - perfect clear video, even when leaving the room. As I finished up and added an RX and was starting to setup Betaflight I tried the video again - it was going static, or black bars, or just cutting out. Swapped to a new battery with same results. I realized the ground to the VTX was loose, thought that would fix. Then I realized my small monitor antenna was almost broken off - so the next day got the ground to the VTX and opened my monitor and hit with some solder. I figured that would fix it. Nope.
Thinking maybe the monitor has seen better days I tried my goggles, same result. So, I swapped out for another VTX... and same thing. Static and loss of signal if I move a few feet away. Went over all my connections, tested voltage, twisted signal wire with ground, wired ground for cam and vtx together, added capacitor, powered cam from vtx... nothing working.
So, perhaps during fiddling I did some damage to the PCB itself? I'm not the best at soldering but I'm getting better and have only burned out one pad long ago in the past. I don't have another board so I cannot rule that out just yet. At a loss for now...
Have gone over this and some similar reading https://oscarliang.com/connect-vtx-fpv-camera/
Thinking maybe the monitor has seen better days I tried my goggles, same result. So, I swapped out for another VTX... and same thing. Static and loss of signal if I move a few feet away. Went over all my connections, tested voltage, twisted signal wire with ground, wired ground for cam and vtx together, added capacitor, powered cam from vtx... nothing working.
So, perhaps during fiddling I did some damage to the PCB itself? I'm not the best at soldering but I'm getting better and have only burned out one pad long ago in the past. I don't have another board so I cannot rule that out just yet. At a loss for now...
Have gone over this and some similar reading https://oscarliang.com/connect-vtx-fpv-camera/
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