Re: FPV Ground station
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 10:32 am
Found a guy in RC Groups - Ground Stations that made inexpensive Goggles with a 4" lcd screen and magnifier. He will be making a 5" next. This is what it says in the thread.
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I suppose this is my ground station, so I'm showing it . It uses a $20 4.3" LCD monitor mounted on a $10 head magnifier using a shoe box. The RC-305 VRx and 1300 mAh LiPo are mounted on the back of the headband using velcro to balance it up. It is comfortable and works remarkably well, and I can read the in-focus OSD display from my G-OSD3 Mini easily from a #16 V2 camera (providing the DVR function) and TX5823 VTx. I find this method of FPV view much better than a tripod mounted monitor as it is more immersive and there is no screen glare.
The great advantage of this system, for a glasses wearer like me, is that I can very rapidly switch to direct view from FPV view, and vice versa, by just flipping up/down the magnifier+monitor without removing my glasses and with only one hand. I will try the same thing with a 5" 800 x 480 monitor when I receive it, though understand from others that this may well crop the image and that the current monitor may be better.
there really isn't much to add to the head bucket. The attached photo shows the underside. The bottom of the cardboard fits onto the underside of the magnifier lenses, and the foam pad rests on the nose. The "flaps" of duct tape on the bottom keep out stray light. I didn't bother to paint the inside of the shoe box black and there is no internal reflection. On the previous photos you will see a heat sink on the bill of the headset. This is for a 9V regulator as it says the RC-305 VRx is good up to 12V, but I doubt if this is necessary as I'm sure it would handle 3S 12.4V. I'm also sure a smaller LiPo would be possible.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-10X-Ligh ... ddb&_uhb=1
If you want to make one of these, better wait until I get my $40, 5" 800 x 600 monitor from BG. I will try this out without dismantling the current headset and, if the OSD is seriously cropped, may stay with the current monitor. I will report here on my results.
I have now received one of these $10 head magnifiers from eBay as a replacement for the one which is now in the headset and it is equally useful, though it's rear head band clamp is weaker than that in my old one.
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I suppose this is my ground station, so I'm showing it . It uses a $20 4.3" LCD monitor mounted on a $10 head magnifier using a shoe box. The RC-305 VRx and 1300 mAh LiPo are mounted on the back of the headband using velcro to balance it up. It is comfortable and works remarkably well, and I can read the in-focus OSD display from my G-OSD3 Mini easily from a #16 V2 camera (providing the DVR function) and TX5823 VTx. I find this method of FPV view much better than a tripod mounted monitor as it is more immersive and there is no screen glare.
The great advantage of this system, for a glasses wearer like me, is that I can very rapidly switch to direct view from FPV view, and vice versa, by just flipping up/down the magnifier+monitor without removing my glasses and with only one hand. I will try the same thing with a 5" 800 x 480 monitor when I receive it, though understand from others that this may well crop the image and that the current monitor may be better.
there really isn't much to add to the head bucket. The attached photo shows the underside. The bottom of the cardboard fits onto the underside of the magnifier lenses, and the foam pad rests on the nose. The "flaps" of duct tape on the bottom keep out stray light. I didn't bother to paint the inside of the shoe box black and there is no internal reflection. On the previous photos you will see a heat sink on the bill of the headset. This is for a 9V regulator as it says the RC-305 VRx is good up to 12V, but I doubt if this is necessary as I'm sure it would handle 3S 12.4V. I'm also sure a smaller LiPo would be possible.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-10X-Ligh ... ddb&_uhb=1
If you want to make one of these, better wait until I get my $40, 5" 800 x 600 monitor from BG. I will try this out without dismantling the current headset and, if the OSD is seriously cropped, may stay with the current monitor. I will report here on my results.
I have now received one of these $10 head magnifiers from eBay as a replacement for the one which is now in the headset and it is equally useful, though it's rear head band clamp is weaker than that in my old one.