Blog Article Continuation(s) Review-WL Toys V959 Quadcopter with Camera

That thread from rcgroups I mentioned earlier describes a hack that adapts the V959 camera to standard RC receiver control. So you could use it on your other aircraft.

Ran

 

My guess is that they do, and over 98% of those sales points are xxx-Mart and chain drug stores, where the ability to reduce their wholesale price by 12 cents can make the difference between getting on the shelf and losing to a competitor. I'd be astonished if we tinkerers were even in the teens of percent of the total sales of the "toy-grade" companies.
The owner of massiverc.com has complained in both rcgroups and on his own catalog pages about the fact that WLToys is driven by the demands of the toy market, not the hacker market, but I believe he also understands that it's mostly about where their volume is.

Ran

 

Is it possible to use a 2C 7.4V lipo battery with this kind of quadcopter? Will it be too heavy? Will it fry the components?

 

There are 2S batteries not much bigger and heavier than the stock battery, but the higher voltage will definitely destroy some components. The only question is whether there would be visible smoke, or the lolgic circuits would get zapped before the motor drivers had a chance to get something really hot.
You might get some additional flying time with a larger 1S battery, but maybe not as much as you'd think: for micro quads, the battery is a major part of the total weight, and hauling a bigger battery makes the quad work harder. The folks at massiverc have done tests on various batteries for the V202, and found that the lighter-weight 250mAH battery actually gave slightly longer flights that the heavier 300mAH ones, but didn't have as much "punch" for spirited maneuvers.

 

Hello
I'm new here. I saw your post about the camera and the WL V959 Radio Turnigy 9X. I would like more details on how you put the button in exteno quad on and off the camera. because the 9X radio has no such possibility. I saw that some wires isolated vc camera intendi but not very well. I can pass the scheme. thank you

 

Good Find, eventually someone will sell an module.......just like the AR Drone and the MiruMod

 

I wanted to do as you did with the button .. but not intendi which wires to use and what wires vain for the button .. you can explain to me

 

I do not intendi what he did here:
yellow: +3.3 v nominal pull to ground for 250ms to start or stop video fuction
white: +3.3 v nominal pull to ground for 250ms to take a still photograph
What is 250ms?

 

Thanks for the explanation brother ..
I do here, then I speak as it became ...

thank you

 

Brother worked ...
heheeh .. I used a button on / off cpu.
already abusing their knowledge .. heheh's to do the same to turn on and off the LEDs?

 

Does the manual state, or has anybody tried: using a larger capacity SD card? Anything above 2GB is labelled as Micro SDHC, not SD. I'm going on a trip, not planning to bring a laptop, so I'd like to be able to shoot more than 18 minutes of aerial video total.
Thanks for the reviews and discussion!

 

Thanks! The card has been ordered; I'll post video in late August after our trip to Easter Island!

 

Hi, I am still learning to fly. If my quad batteries run out at a hieght, will it come down and land safely, will it keep stabalized.

 

Bernie,

Generally.......most UAS's (unmanned aerial system) will have a way to tell you the batteries are low.....AR Drone 2.0 puts it on the phone screen, others may beep or flash the LED's....all depends on the bird.

So you should have enough time to land safely as the battery "dies" when te indicator tells you "Low Power".

But not all UAS's will have this feature, so the first flights should be low to the ground and you should time them........once you know the approximate time the bird is low on power then land.

If you do run out at height and the bird drops..........expect some damage.