First look/flight/crash of the RunCam Split - and 2 follow up videos

[CurryKitten]

I've had this Split kicking around for a few weeks now, but was trying to get a good comparison video of the 2.1mm and 2.3mm lens on the RunCam Micro before I replaced it.

Having done the comparison video, I went ahead and tried the split out in my Martian III frame.  This frame flies pretty smoothly, so I wasn't expecting any issues - but I, of course, got some

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I'm not at all a fan of the camera so far as your FPV feed goes... but to be fair it was up in the air less than 30 seconds, so I don't want to jump the gun too much, but it was immediately noticeable.  Jello wise, it could be down to that movement I had in the mount, but I'll have that sorted when I retest it and then see if I need a better mounting.

I didn't get a chance to test latency, but it's of a concern to people that fly fast and low... I'll look at that on the retesting.  Oh, as a point of note, just to be different, I did pay for this myself, although RunCam gave me 30% off

[English Turbines]

 Hi Wayne.....Looks like the Camera mounting screws have bottomed out maybe..?....Did you fit the washers, I mean it should be clamped solid to its mounting bracket..?

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[Coyote]

The SD mounting is shear stupidity IMO. Really poor design, realistically you are pretty much going to be forced to leave the SD card permanently mounted and access via USB only.

I think a further test should have been carried out before releasing this though to be honest, I don't think at this point it's a fair review.

[CurryKitten]

I think a further test should have been carried out before releasing this though to be honest, I don't think at this point it's a fair review.

It's a fair point. It's not a full review, but as I'm away for a week (hi from Orlando) and I didn't know how long it would take me to retest. I decided to release what I had and come back with a part 2 when I can

[Coyote]

Cool look forward to seeing how it works out.

Enjoy your hols :)

[bignose13]

I burnt out my pcb 😬 If anyone is gonna burn it out it's gonna be me
New board from runcam on its way, I also ordered the wifi module while I'm at it

[iwan_canobi]

Oh, now theres a thing, I have a dead Runcam 2, well, it still works but won't charge or connect to the PC any more. Do you think you can plug the Runcam 2 sensor module into the split PCB?

[ASBO]

Too expensive and obviously to a good design.....I am glad I read these as I was tempted..... I wondered why Bignose13 hadn't been telling me how good it was....

[bignose13]

School boy error mate, shorted out on a piece of mig wire
Super unlucky 😢

[CurryKitten]

I thought I'd add a follow up to this initial review, just to see if I could alter that quad to make things smoother, and have the footage from the split I want.

The TL;DR version is, no I can't, not on that quad.  To be fair, there seems to be a bit of judder coming from one or two of the motors - they certainly feel different from the others anyway.  What really goes unnoticed in a CC Dturns into crap in a CMOS

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I'll move it on to another quad... although there's no obvious contender yet.

[Brucey]

Not had a chance to watch you video yet.

Did you have any freezing of the FPV feed?

[CurryKitten]

Not had a chance to watch you video yet.

Did you have any freezing of the FPV feed?

No freezing, but occasionally I'd hit a breakup where the whole screen goes and comes back.  It's maybe only like a quarter of a second, but it's noticeably different from the normal breakup

[Brucey]

I've had the FPV feed totally freeze and only a reboot would bring it back. Need to try a faster SD card to see if that fixes it as the only way to make it reliable it not to record onboard.... kind of defeats the object 😂

[CurryKitten]

I've had the FPV feed totally freeze and only a reboot would bring it back. Need to try a faster SD card to see if that fixes it as the only way to make it reliable it not to record onboard.... kind of defeats the object 😂

I generally only use class 10 cards in everything.  Fairly terrible if it locks up like your one and needs a manual reboot.  Perhaps they fixed that in the Split version 2 (which of course is already available to preorder - but blink and they'll probably have the split 3 out as well)

[Coyote]

Shame that's put me off the Slit for now, let's see if the Split 2 does any better.