I recently purchased a new in box (2015 version) Storm RC X5 (x480) quadcopter. It came with a Yun Tiny Gimbal but there is no where to connect the signal wires? Info on this quad is so limited it took me 2 days to find this place! I am new to APM flight controllers and have only used manufacture specific proprietary boards, so this has me stumped.
I can’t even find a copy of Mission Planner that works on Windows 7. I know this is all outdated stuff, but there has to be help out there for it?
I have the manual (found here)
I have the GlobalFly manual (found elsewhere, your link is gone)
I have the Yun manual too, but no connection info to this quad.
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Hi nightowl,
The Mission Planner by ArduPilot should be available HERE and should work on Windows7.
Regarding the Gimbal, it’s usually autonomous once powered. If you want to control it with the transmitter that’s another story.
Thank you and I did get the software to work. As far as the gimbal, yes, I want to control it through its signal wires. I find it odd that this x5 was sold with the gimbal, yet no where to hook it up except for power. Maybe they never thought about those of us who film and not just point at a slight angle downward.
All they had to do was install an rx with connections unlike whats on it which has zero connections.
Then again, I found a schematic for ardupilot 2.x (end of life) that shows gimbal signal wires connected to pins 10 and 11 on the apm 2.x Guess what? I have no pins 10 and 11 on mine.
There is probably a PPM receiver with only one stream of all the Channels of the transmitter in one wire.
That’s pretty common now but yes it avoid you to use the spare channels directly.
What you have on that is a clone of APM 2.6 from what i remember.
You can follow the tutorials regarding this board HERE as you pointed out.
The GlobalFly flight controller don’t seems to have (as you said) the 10 & 11 pins.
