Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your time

[Noël]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

Just received mine, and at this moment I do not think that it is crap at all!

The finish of it looks way nicer than the Taco-RC that I have here, and the weight of the gimbal is 156 grams. That is 9 grams lighter than the Taco-RC (V1) gimbal

(Goodluckbuy gimbal)

(Taco-RC (V1) gimbal)

I removed the two bushing's to create a little bit more spacing (8mm) between the bottom of the gimbal and the ground.
I'm not sure if this is a good move as the camera will now touch the top of the gimbal plate when doing a hard roll with the P2V (need to test it)

The created extra space (+/- 8mm).

(note: I did not like the plastic bushing they supplied to fix the camera on the bottom plate so I used the 4 extra gimbal dampers instead )

I will still need to do some fine tuning of the gimbal, and as soon as I get some time to fly / test it I will post a video of it in action.
For now my 1st impression is good!

 

[tizzl10]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

looking forward to your flight video. if you can get it to work properly, ill give mine another shot.

 

[4wd]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

How long did they take to deliver that?
I have a couple of items ordered at end of March still show processed but not shipped.
I managed to message the live chat thing and she said it was out of stock but back 'in a few days' but does it does not show out of stock on the item page.
I've bought a couple of things from China before and they were here in less them two weeks.
It's Paypal anyway but kind of annoying to check most days and seen no change.
Sending a direct message (twice) before trying the chat they do not answer.

 

[Noël]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

I am Joanna of on GoodLuckBuy.Com, we shipped order by HongKong Post on 2014-04-02 to you.
According to our estimate, your order should arrive soon.

I received it today (Netherlands)
So it took 11 days.

 

[Ballad]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

interesting, I also bought one and got the same error as Tizzl10. What I discovered was that the engines were very weak and that may lead to vibrations. I hope you succeed and share what you've done

Runar

 

[Noël]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

Is / was it also vibrating when doing a dry run / hand test?

 

[Ballad]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

No, no vibrations then. They occur when I plug in the battery to the gimbal

 

[TexomaEV]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

This is an interesting thread, I ordered what seems to be the same gimbal from here, waiting on it's arrival:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261440847927?ss ... 1439.l2649

 

[tizzl10]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

This is an interesting thread, I ordered what seems to be the same gimbal from here, waiting on it's arrival:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261440847927?ss ... 1439.l2649

yeah its a piece of sh!t. I don't know of a single person who got it working.

 

[Noël]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

Hope that I can get some airtime tomorrow for testing my setup.
Will report back if so.

 

[Dillinger]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

and?

 

[Noël]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

Way to windy today.
6 Beaufort.
Same for tomorrow.

 

[Noël]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

Still no airtime here due to wind conditions.

 

[Dillinger]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

****. Waiting like next season on tv-show

 

[TexomaEV]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

Noel, No pressure but I sure hope you have some good luck with your gimbal when you do finally get some flight time in, as mine is due to arrive in a few days. Q: Did you balance the load on each of the axis? I plan to balance them, so maybe the motors won't have to work so hard to keep it level. I also plan to try and balance the entire quad if I can suspend it from the center of the quad, which I think would help keep the NAZA from being overwhelmed.

 

[Big Ben]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

Tomorrow should be OK.

 

[Noël]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

re: Q: Did you balance the load on each of the axis?
I did not need to make any changes to it as it was balanced okay!

I did not try the actual balance of the entire quad, but will try to think up a way to do this too.

The weather does look promising for tomorrow, so fingers crossed..

Will report back when I have an update.

 

[Noël]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

Update from the field.
This thing vibrates more than the dildo from my friends girlfriend!

Going home now to see if I can change some values to make it stop oscillating.

 

[Noël]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

It doesn't look like settings will stop the vibration.
I've just done a small test flight without powering the gimbal, and even than it starts to bounce up and down!

I'm not going to give up on this, but for now I unfortunately must agree with the OP... Conclusion... CRAP!

 

[tizzl10]

Re: Goodluckbuy gimbal *this thing is crap. dont waste your

It doesn't look like settings will stop the vibration.
I've just done a small test flight without powering the gimbal, and even than it starts to bounce up and down!

I'm not going to give up on this, but for now I unfortunately must agree with the OP... Conclusion... CRAP!

lol told ya. its a serious design flaw. nobody i know has gotten it to work.