FY21AP II

[Coyote]

Yeah ive been asked by someone if i could fit one, at first i was reluctant because of the strength issues of taking that much out of it.

Will monting it without the anti vib tray give you much more flexibiliy do you think ? 

[foamystuff]

Ive mounted mine using double sided squishy foam tape and not seen the unit display the vibration warning yet. I ran the motor at various throttle settings for about 20 seconds at a time as it says in the manual..
To be honest, that anti vibration mount is more trouble than its worth, it might stop the occasional jolt from reaching the unit, but it wont prevent all vibration frequencies, especially the higher ranges experienced with a high rpm prop/motor combo. This would need some serious maths but the mount just looks like it was thrown together. Although if I were using an ic aircraft, it might help. You'd get better results just using a balanced prop as this is where all the vibration will be generated with electric aircraft.
I also noticed that due to the many cables running into the unit, they would slightly push the unit off alignment and so it would no longer point straight. Plus the velcro method of attaching it to the tray wasn't the most secure way of doing it, as it could easily be moved about with hardly any effort. Not a good thing when it could shift during a hand launch, would make for some interesting 'stabilised' flights though  :laugh:...

[Coyote]

Lol i bet, when are you looking at testing it out ?

[foamystuff]

Its all finished now, finally.. So looking at Monday or Tuesday afternoon, weather permitting.. About time, between my girlfriend and uni, I have no spare time left..

[Devonian]

That's intersting as I read on RCG that someone had simply velcroed the main unit to the fuz of their electric foamie and had no adverse effects.
I think I will do the same as there isn't really room for the damper inside the EZ*.
With the main unit velcroed to the fuz, I think there would be room to mount the OSD unit above it on a small 'shelf' made from a bit of 2mm plywood.

Off to the man-cave for a little think...

Nigel.

[Devonian]

Well, I had a thunk, and came up with this...

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Stabilizer unit to be velcroed to the fuze and OSD to be velcroed onto the wee little shelf.
Now need to give it a 'dry fit' with all the wiring and make sure it all goes in there and not 'bind' and transmit bad vibes to the stabilizer unit.

Nigel.

[mark1975]

looks like a perfect spot there nigel for it looking forward to your test results on this as i will be purchasing one soon

[Waikawa]

More of a general gear question but this is a pretty close topic.  Has anyone compiled a table of the options for gear and the available solutions.  I'm thinking of columns headed, OSD, Gyro, current sensor, autopilot,GPS, head tracker, goggles, video transmitters, ground antennae... there must be more.

Rows would show what manufacturers are offering.

As a new starter, I'm pretty much only aware of what FPV UK offer but all the members seems to have different permutations.  Give a name of an item it is pretty easy to hunt it down on the internet but you have to know that a product exists before you can search for it.

No, I don't know enough to volunteer to do it myself! thats why I'm asking.

[Coyote]

Good idea ill get onto that :)

[foamystuff]

Somebody had one on RCG, but it was just OSD features, if that helps?

[mark1975]

looking forward paul to seeing this in action the fy21-ap should be awesome to.see her doing the features

[foamystuff]

Works great just testing it by tilting and rotating the plane by hand. Should really do the business in the air, I just need to remember that if the radio goes into failsafe the prop will run at 70% throttle  :o  So if your setting the throttle to run in failsafe Mark make sure you disconnect one of the ESC bullet connectors to the motor, just reconnect before launch. Might help save a finger or two  :laugh:

[Coyote]

Oww could catch you out, yes be carefull. Sounds like your all set for a field test then :)

[foamystuff]

Was going to test it this afternoon, but the Corona Rx and the pan servo glitch put paid to that. Thats twice Ive been foiled, will get the EZUHF up and running over the weekend, no more glitches or getting shot down hopefully.

[Peter]

Does anyone know if there will be a UK version of the EZUHF?