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So I traded a iPad mini 4 16 GB (valued at $240 used). For a phantom 1 and it was one of my best moves I have ever made ...soon as I took it home I started to do some mods.I'll be adding photos soon as I get home
1st mod was a fast one I swapped out the plain white body out with a p2 all black body from eBay $30
2nd was gimbal I mean whats a drone with out a camera I got this cheap Chinese one with the trade on eBay they are about $30. Comes with board and motors so I took the board out and I had a extra tarot gimbal I cut off the mounting arm and added the ring mount from the chinese gimbal and added it to the tarot with some 2 part epoxy the bracket is the same side as the blue motor housing so by doing this I can use the OEM landing gear and it still fits in my dji backpack the gimbal does not hit ground what so ever
see pics for reference
3rd mod sense I got the phantom 2 shell I thought it would be nice to use a phantom 2 battery to make it look a lot cleaner so I got this battery pig tail off eBay for $8 the red goes to red and black goes to black the orange is not used in this case so I just disconnected it
4th is FPV I have a transmitter from eBay $30
TS5823S 200mw 5.8GHz 40ch Channel Micro Video Transmitter FPV 5.8g VTX
and this screen
5.8GHz FPV 32CH Dual Diversity LCD Screen Receiver 7in Monitor RX-LCD5802
5th I solder the red connecters to power gimbal straight to the aux power cables that come stock inside phantom 1 so I can use the phantom 2 battery I soldered 2 one for gimbal and one for fpv transmitter
All I need to do is more the fpv transmitter and that's where I'm stumped please let me know where you guys have yours remember I'm looking for a clean solution I'm trying to minimize the show of wires and chips
1st mod was a fast one I swapped out the plain white body out with a p2 all black body from eBay $30
2nd was gimbal I mean whats a drone with out a camera I got this cheap Chinese one with the trade on eBay they are about $30. Comes with board and motors so I took the board out and I had a extra tarot gimbal I cut off the mounting arm and added the ring mount from the chinese gimbal and added it to the tarot with some 2 part epoxy the bracket is the same side as the blue motor housing so by doing this I can use the OEM landing gear and it still fits in my dji backpack the gimbal does not hit ground what so ever
3rd mod sense I got the phantom 2 shell I thought it would be nice to use a phantom 2 battery to make it look a lot cleaner so I got this battery pig tail off eBay for $8 the red goes to red and black goes to black the orange is not used in this case so I just disconnected it
4th is FPV I have a transmitter from eBay $30
TS5823S 200mw 5.8GHz 40ch Channel Micro Video Transmitter FPV 5.8g VTX
and this screen
5.8GHz FPV 32CH Dual Diversity LCD Screen Receiver 7in Monitor RX-LCD5802
5th I solder the red connecters to power gimbal straight to the aux power cables that come stock inside phantom 1 so I can use the phantom 2 battery I soldered 2 one for gimbal and one for fpv transmitter
All I need to do is more the fpv transmitter and that's where I'm stumped please let me know where you guys have yours remember I'm looking for a clean solution I'm trying to minimize the show of wires and chips