Trying out a new set up

[KevG]

Well guys you know I have had the QAV400 for a while and have had various setups on it,

Well I have been playing with the idea of selling it and thought I would give this a try before I did, so off came the Naza V2 with mini osd, and on went a lowly old Naze32 rev 5 instead, (keep a look out as the Naza might be up for sale soon),

Set up now
QAV400
T-Motor 2216-9 1100kv
Dys 30a running blheli
Naze32
Dynamic 3200 4s 35c cells

My thoughts, will need a bit of tinkering to get the feel I want but the performance and characteristics I like anyway, the quad flew pretty nice was stable and happy in the air running betaflight 2.5.3 and luxfloat with slight reduction in P value from default, its never going to be a speed demon but flies nice for what it is.

The second reason I done it was to test a new camera I got, seen an offer on for a Kitvision Escape HD5 currently on offer in Tesco for £25 so it would have been rude not to give it a go, would much rather that on the quad than my Gopro hero4 silver, lol, overall for a 720p camera the video is pretty good not Gopro quality by any means but not bad, colours are pretty good and does not seem to jumpy cos of frame rate, pics are at 5mp and when increasing size will get grainy but not to bad again, you get what you pay for I guess but at normal rrp maybe not a good buy but at £25 Im pretty impressed.

here is a short video to show cam and quad.....

https://youtu.be/I_0vzj3qJdM

[Graham Lawrie]

Looks not bad Kev:) and youve lost weight also:)

[KevG]

Thanks mate, yeah it looks pretty good and the quad was pretty nice to,

2 stone nearly mate and feel bloody great,

[Stambo]

Nice, was this an FPV or LOS flight?
From the video, I assume you are flying angle mode.
If you back off the level P heaps, it will be a lot slower returning to level which will make your video smoother.
Or better still, fly acro.

I really want at some stage to get something to use as a camera ship.
Most likely this will be a QAV 400.
I have a gimbal already and a new, so called 4k camera coming, now I just need something to put it on.
I have no intention of recording in 4k, but it is capable of 1080p 60 or 720p 120.

[KevG]

Little bit of LOS at the beginning then FPV

Using Horizon with reduced levelling rates as I want this to be a filming platform not fast fly, nearly back on acro on the minis as getting more practice in now,

[KevG]

And here is another video from last night, Just under 4 mins of flight and came down with 3.96v per cell so think I can go to about 6 - 7 mins.

Think I'm going to keep this now so going to look for a gimbal and some larger capacity cells......

https://youtu.be/o6KqfRWeKAo