What arrived today?

[Dillwhacker]

When you get that working perfectly, I'm gonna come round your house and steal your ideas...
Cos mine is CRAP and I'm damned if I can fix it... LOL
>:(

[BlueFlyer]

I was thinking of doing a short build video for it. Just waiting for the project box

[Dillwhacker]

Please do that.
I don't know why mine is crap despite everything I have tried, so I may well just get a clue from a vid - I'm still stumped TBH.
Cheers !

[Brucey]

New car, ready to be kitted out for our tour in Kenya

[jimbo19]

Very Nice - plenty of room for FPV kit in there  :)

[luvbus]

It's taking a trip to Prospeed is it??

[Brucey]

I'd love to throw it at prospeed, it's just so expensive! I'm scouring the second hand market!

Yeah plenty of space for planes!

[Western]

Always one show off. Most show a new lipo or kit, Brucey has a new car. lol.
Good luck in Kenya, is the move work related?
Cheers, Mark

[Brucey]

 ;D

Yeah for work,  3 years as the best (only) fpv er  in the country

[BlueFlyer]

ABS project box (for my ground station) and a 64GB microSD card (for my GoPro)

[BlueFlyer]

Thanks PK-Surfing

[AdamG]

Thanks PK-Surfing

Awesome  ;D Now you can get it working and I can bug you when i need help with mine  :laugh:

It looks super simple to physically install... just got to get my head around the whole '2 switch' method.

[CurryKitten]

Does it look super simple, my main issue with the MFD AP (aside from the fact my first one blew up) is that row of 60 pins staring you in the face.  It's not often I have to make a colour coded spreadsheet in order to double check where to plug everything into :)

[BlueFlyer]

Does it look super simple, my main issue with the MFD AP (aside from the fact my first one blew up) is that row of 60 pins staring you in the face.  It's not often I have to make a colour coded spreadsheet in order to double check where to plug everything into :)

It's no where near as simple as the Vector. The huge mass of pins on the face look daunting, but I'm currently reading the manual and once everything is wired up there should be no need to mess around with connectors to those pins.

I've also just found out that I'm going to have to factor in a 12v and 5v drop down component somewhere in the build... the Vector does all this for you as part of the PSU (which is a combined current sensor, 12v regulator, 5v regulator AND a filter). This MFD AP doesn't do any of that for you... it takes 7-20v input (the internal 5v reg drops that down to power the unit) but that same 7-20 input is fed to the cam and VTX so best to give the MFD AP it's pre-regulated 12v. Its a good job I've got one of those maitek PDBs which just happens to have 12v and 5v BEC built in, it's doable... just not as straight forward as the vector was.

Awesome  ;D Now you can get it working and I can bug you when i need help with mine  :laugh:

It looks super simple to physically install... just got to get my head around the whole '2 switch' method.

I've been using the 2 switch method for ages on the Vector so I'm used to having a 2 pos mode switch as well as a 3 pos sub-mode switch.

[BigT]

It's no where near as simple as the Vector. The huge mass of pins on the face look daunting, but I'm currently reading the manual and once everything is wired up there should be no need to mess around with connectors to those pins.

I've also just found out that I'm going to have to factor in a 12v and 5v drop down component somewhere in the build... the Vector does all this for you as part of the PSU (which is a combined current sensor, 12v regulator, 5v regulator AND a filter). This MFD AP doesn't do any of that for you... it takes 7-20v input (the internal 5v reg drops that down to power the unit) but that same 7-20 input is fed to the cam and VTX so best to give the MFD AP it's pre-regulated 12v. Its a good job I've got one of those maitek PDBs which just happens to have 12v and 5v BEC built in, it's doable... just not as straight forward as the vector was.

I've been using the 2 switch method for ages on the Vector so I'm used to having a 2 pos mode switch as well as a 3 pos sub-mode switch.

Just make sure you get the polarity right for the supply, you don't get a second chance. Everything else is really straight forward if you  follow the many videos and guides. Make sure you pay attention to the last couple of pages of the manual, follow the pre flight and first flight regime in the manual. There is a really good forum on rcgroups