Lynx B - Pan and Tilt Kit (Black Anodized)

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Hi,

Does someome know the ranges of the product: Lynx B - Pan and Tilt Kit (Black Anodized), on both axes, and power of the serovs?

Thanx.

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The servo range is limited to 180° but the tilt portion of the pan and tilt is limited to les than this mechanically. The servo power is not what people normally use, servo torque is more relavent. The pan and tilt with servos is using the 422 servo which is rated for 57 oz. in. However you can make a custom pan and tilt from the Servo Erector Set components and use any hitec standard servo which can have up to 417 oz. in. of torque.

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so I’m a bit of a newbie to the world of servos…
my first build was an electric RC helicopter which I built from kit form (none of this flies out of the box nonsense :wink:) - interesting experience…

now I want to start my way down the road of filming from an RC helicopter.

Rather than buying a fully made heli with roll/tilt/pan mount I wanted to build a small one for a tiny CCD board camera - I figured I would gyro stabilise on each axis and start to get used to having a remote camera head.

so step one is to mount a tiny camera on a pan/tilt head - I was going to build one but then I found you had already done that…and at $9.95 I can’t complain :wink:

My question is about the roll axis…any recommendations as to which servo erector set components to use to throw a roll axis around the pan/tilt thingy ?

Thanks

Nick

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Not sure how much weight your helicopter can lift, but I would think you would want to use the smallest servos available to pan/tilt the small board cam.

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not sure of exact weight (having not tested) but I’m fairly certain that the bracket plus three servos plus camera weight plus 9V battery (for transmitter/camera power) plus 2nd receiver (since the first one is used for controlling the heli)

shouldn’t be a problem…

my question is more about the roll axis

If you look at the image of the lynxmotion B

and compare it to the servocity full size camera pan/tilt/roll head that’s what I’m trying to mimic

so I figure with the standard pan/tilt roll mount for the board camera I could just add another servo.

from the top it would be pan axis - into roll cage - within which is housed a tilt servo…

question is which brackets are recommended for that

any thoughts

Nick

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I looked at servocity and the “roll” thingy appears to be “comming soon”. To add “roll” to the existing pan/tilt, just attach another servo to the cam bracket on the pan/tilt, then put the cam on that servo’s horn. Hang everything upside down. You must be good at multi-tasking. :wink:

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yeah sorry I would have posted a link to the youtube but since I was a newbie user it wouldn’t let me - here it goes

youtube.com/watch?v=oGbk4UEO9ck

you are right - on the servocity website it says coming soon

if you look on the video the mount is upside down (just like it would be on a heli) and then the first axis is pan, the other two axes (in sequence of roll and tilt with respect to distance from camera cofg) are in a rollcage that is being panned.

what I decided to do is rather that mounting the cam on the servos horn for the third axis - is to mimic the sequence of pan/roll/tilt - so I ordered three L-brackets that I will connect in an S-configuration to one of the servos…

that sounds weird but should make sense once it’s put together - will post a picture here.

annoyingly my “notify me when a reply is posted” doesn’t work for me so I’ll just have to keep checking the thread…

Nick

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ha ha - well sure - but not that good :smiley:

I ordered another controller and micro receiver for the mount only - I’m trying to get into aerial filming a little bit to see if I want to save up for a full size camera capable heli…

Nick