damoncooper said:
I used a Dremmel to open the existing hole for the 3rd axis motor. I added #10 stainless steel washers under the mount to pull the 3-rd axis motor out of the hole a bit to add clearance with the battery. I also used some superglue to hold the washers in place during mounting. Finally, I mounted the interference circuit board inside the P2 for a nice clean look, with nothing external except the gimbal and FPV Tx. My mini-iOSD is also mounted internally.[/url]
OK, I did almost the exact same thing this weekend.
1. I cut a clean hole the exact same size as the hole in the gimbal mount, using my normal drill and three Dremel type grinding attachments, one conical, one spherical, and one cylindrical
2. I tried fixing the gimbal straight to the base of the Phantom without using washers and it's definitely a no-go, the battery touches the top of the motor. I just had to prove it to myself
3. Instead of washers, I used the plastic 'cups' from those fittings you get for hiding screw heads
4. I also installed the anti-interference board and the iOSD-mini inside the Phantom shell
I've never done anything like this before but I followed Damon's helpful pics and these two videos and it was pretty easy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TL8pqtEDuos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSZWdcd4WZ0
Comments:
I got slightly confused in the first video at 3:00 and had to play it several times before becoming confident that I could cut off the green, white and red wires from the Immersion RC Tx.
I had to go back and replay the same video several times at 3:30 and at 4:20 because there are two black ground cables, one for the video ground and one for the power ground and I wanted to be absolutely sure I was connecting the right ones! So, yes, at 3:30, the black cable he refers to is the one mixed in with the red, green, white and yellow wires attached to the Tx connector. The black cable referred to at 4:20 is the one coming from the separate red+black Tx power cable.
Heat shrink tubing is a must. I got my dealer to put a length in with my order.
As to fitting the interference board, this was not as easy as it could have been because the ribbon cable from the board to the Phantom's Zenumuse socket needs to be a couple of centimetres longer. I actually had it fitted very nicely, all connected and stuck in place, but when I came to fit the gimbal, the cable to it from the board wouldn't reach! :evil: So I had to un-stick the board (NOT easy) and turn it the opposite way round. In this orientation, the ribbon cable supplied with the board was very tight, but there was nothing I could do about that (that's why I say that this cable needs to be longer)
These are the plastic things I used as washers. I broke off and threw away the snap-cap bit and used the part with the hole in (upside down)
Finally, because of the depth of these 'washers' the screws supplied to fix the H3-3D to the Phantom are too short, I found I needed them to be about 7.5 mm in length otherwise they project into the Phantom battery bay and prevent the battery from being fully inserted. Luckily I had some long prop-guard screws I didn't need and I ground these down to the right length.
So thank you, Damon, for being the guinea-pig!
