Black Sheep...

[Burgerman]

http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/gopro/pond.mp4

1080 HD so you need a big monitor... 1920 pixels wide. 200mb


Testing when getting a bit dark, over the pond in the park. Makes me very nervous...

[Seajays]

Bm, your video is screwed up, only download about 8 seconds then stop, then tries to load more than back to 8 seconds and no more video. Others of yours did that too.

[Burgerman]

Works fine here. Also from the pub on laptop... Its your connection. But from Canada I am surprised you get 8 seconds! You need to be streaming 200mb in 1.5 mins smoothly without a break! That's cont 2.2Mb per second across the planet...


Download to desktop and then play. 200mb, it wont stream without very fast connection as its full 1080p HD (1920 X 1080 pixels @ 30 fps)...

[Seajays]

Nice video, but no Babes

[Burgerman]

Its 2 degrees C so about the same as my fridge!

And almost dark. For some reason the vids look like daylight.

[rollingcowboy]

why do you risk flying over water?

[Burgerman]

Because I can. And because my friend in the pub said I wouldn't do it. And because I have to get over the fact that if anything fails in future its going to go down over a town or whatever at up to a couple of miles away flying by FPV. And lost. As soon as my video goggles arrive.

Its hard to do because of the money and setting up etc.

If you love it you have to let it go. If it loves you it will come back!

Range http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... GcylhuIX3A

[Burgerman]

http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/TBS-Discovery.htm

Page.

[Burgerman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkAodEy6 ... 4A6319DE17

Big altitude mountain climbing. TAKES Three batteries. And about 35 mins climbing.

[Burgerman]

Wind, cold, panic, over Niagara falls, but comes good in the end... Not Black Sheep. Amateur (very cold one.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMHr6LQhTRE

[Burgerman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saEDf6EV9wg

Venice - new yesterday. Looks like a nice colourful place. Full screen is a must!

[MrSpudboy]

nice vid.

Kids, huh? It didn't have anything to do with the lathe in your bedroom?

[Burgerman]

Its not my vid. So no. But I made prop adapters, but that's it. You can buy them though.

[Burgerman]

For anyone interested in RC or extending the Hobby RC transmitter range. I just changed the max range from my JR 12x Transmitter from about 1 optimum, often less to about 4 miles.

By fitting a 2000mW WiFi booster. It allows normal operation, is dead neat and tidy, and gives exactly 12dB of gain using the same antenna.

That quadruples the range, as it transmits at 2000mW rather than 128mW. Now I can fly MUCH further away, with my quad copter, and up to around 4 miles high with my gliders... This is of course all illegal, but who cares. And at least twice that, with a high gain antenna!

http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/images-JR-12X/

[Lord Chatterley]

Have you polished that too?

LC

[Burgerman]

Of course. I do it to everything. Even the booster had its bolt hole mounting cut off, Filed, cleaned up and reassembled and the RC transmitter was stripped and rebuilt super clean.

That RC transmitter is all magnesium casings, back and front. Comes apart like a gun, everything just fits. All the bolts are now stainless polished too! OCD.

[Burgerman]

http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/12x.htm

Booster page here!

[Burgerman]

Shapes.

Strange word if you keep saying it, it starts to sound odd.

How's summer in your area? Here's my street from about 100 feet. Today. Windy, cloud, and sun all at once. Every-ones gardens are green from the rain.

Shapes is the song. My neighbours are used to seeing this come and go now. I can now do about 4 or 5 miles range all over the town. This is just my street though. Download to desktop first or it wont play as its too high bitrate.

http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/gopro/shapes.mp4 movie, just 3 mins, 250mb. This is the low res 720 version. Its part of an illustration for a web page. so is covered in text.

The 1080 one version is HUGE and very detailed. No text.

http://www.wheelchairdriver.com/gopro/shapes-1080.mp4 Should you want to see how good a tiny gopro camera is.

[TerryP]

What great coverage of your booster installation... thank you and very nice work. I have a question if you don't mind. The JR12 radio is gorgeous but more than I can spend. I'm working with a Walkera Devo 10 and it has selectable output power (1,3,10,30,100, 150mW) Do you think I could use a lower power setting instead of using an attenuator?

[Burgerman]

You could.

It all depends on which booster. They all have a max input level quoted. And to get full power you have to be right on it, but not over it.

The booster is linear. Meaning if max input is 100mW (20db) and you feed it exactly this you get 2 watts of power out.
But feed it 50mW and get only 1 watt out.

The difference is 3db in power level. 6db will either half or double the range.

So you need to know the real specs of booster and transmitter. Your quoted figures will likely be RF out, not electrical power level. So if like mine it has a 2.3db gain antenna you need to deduct this to get the electrical signal power output.

Feed it too much and you get 2 problems, distortion, and failure while flying...