FPV Summit

[RMNixon]

This is my other Summit, thought you guys might like to see her.

I got this way back in January of 2010 and it's taken on a lot of forms. This one is my favorite!

So far I've had it out to a little over 800 yards. The area where I run has a nice hill in the middle where I setup my video receiver antenna. 800 yards is as far as I can get out before the hill drops off and I loose line-of-sight. I'm confident I could get to 1 mile or more on more level terrain. Running my 2 2s batteries in parallel keeps the top speed down (you don't need more than 2s speed in FPV) and gives me 4 hours of run time before my main batteries and video transmitter battery need replacement.

Basic Specs:

• Transmitter: Turnigy 9X with Dragon Link 433MHz control system
• Receiver: Dragon Link 12 channel 433MHz
• Video Transmitter: 1.3GHz 400mW from Ready Made R/C
• Video Receiver: 1.3GHz from Ready Made R/C
• Video Transmitter/Receiver Antenna: 1.3GHz Cloverleaf RHCP
• Camera 1: Turnigy 700 TVL
• Camera 2: Pico wide from Ready Made R/C
• Camera 3: Pico wide from Ready Made R/C
• ESC: Hobbywing Quicrun WP-860
• BEC: Castle 10amp
• Vehicle Power: 2x 5000 mAh 2s 50c lipo in parallel (10,000 mAh at 50c)
• VTX Power: 2200mAh 3s lipo
• Misc: 3 channel video switcher from FPV Pro, receiver controlled switch from HobbyKing for lights, Pro-Line 3.8 Masher tires, extra LEDs up front for night time driving

Here's how I've got everything laid out currently:




Here's the control system layout:




Here's how I've got Dragon Link attached to the 9x:




The rear video camera on a pan servo with the video transmitter in the background:




The front cameras on a pan servo. The bottom camera has over twice the field of view as the pico camera on top. I use the wide camera when driving and the narrow camera when stopped to survey an area.




The Hobbywing ESC:




My Dragon Link reciever sits inside this empty pill bottle. The power and antenna wires run through the back, the servo leads run through the front. The whole thing is sealed up with RTV silicone.




Here she is topless! I put as much of the FPV equipment as possible on the roll cage and made it easy to disconnect. This makes servicing the vehicle nice & easy!




How she looks with the roll cage on:




From the front:




An overall shot. The Tupperware case not only protects the delicate cloverleaf antenna inside, it also protects the front and rear cameras in case of a roll over.




That's it, feel free to ask any questions or share your own FPV builds!

[sk8rjess]

How about working footage?

[youngblood]

Love this! what is your range with the FPV?