Seablade
Key Veteran
Location: floating around
| My 2 cents for watt it is worth.
sorry to be blunt, but your system as shown in the 1st image is a mess.
The first thing you see is that you are running signal carrying wires from the Rx right under that regulator, all velcro'd around the frame. The antenna for the video Tx is right next to the power switch. The video Tx is also close to the battery and it's wires. The antenna for the RX is also running on top of and alongside a power wire from the battery.
Your killing yourself with any potential noise coming of the raw power supply circuit.
View your system as three separate circuits. Power, Rx and servos and Video Tx.
Take everything in your Power circuit-Battery, Regulator and the Power Switch and put them on one leg. The only thing coming off this leg is the power supply to the Rx and Tx. These two "power wires" split and go in opposite directions at when they reach the support beam running fore-aft between the legs.
Putting the regulator vertically on the leg will also allow any downwash off the Main rotor to flow down into the open ends of the shrink wrap to get as much cooling as possible.
So I would trim back the red shrink wrap to make as big an opening as I could and place this on one side of a leg. Put the battery and power switch on the other side so there are no obstructions to prevent any air getting down into it. Also, I would not use a velcro strap to attach it, the reason being that it is like putting a coat on it to keep it warm. Double-sided foam or "Zeal Tape" and a "safety" zip-ty.
Next, find the shortest path for the servo wiring to run. Kinda hard to do with a 360 mount. How about putting it between the forward legs under the top plate? If there is not enough clearence for the mount to rotate maybe you can get a small piece of CF and add it so it sticks out forward and mount it there.
Here's the kicker, your power supply wire to the Rx from the regulator comes in from one direction and the servo wires go out the opposite way. They are going to meet at the connecting pin board, but why have them overlap each other? If you can avoid this-do it. Your pwr. supply wire and antenna- keep them separate as well. I would get some of the antenna tubing and find a way to mount that.
Maybe sticking out horizontally from the front end of the Rx "tray" if you went for that idea.
Finally you Video Tx. If you were to put the "Power circuit" on the right side aft leg, the RX circuit on the forward end between the front legs or on the right front leg then the left side aft leg would be the place to put it. The power supply wire would run across the aft frame on the rear side (away from the servo) and down to the Tx. your going to run into the problem of the power wire and the antenna. If the Tx is mounted at the top of the vertical leg, the antenna could be aimed straight down.
The signal from the antenna radiates outward horizontally from it's length. So the angle you have the antenna at in the photo has the signal at the rear side aimed at the ground and the forward side is going off into space.
So what you've got now is all three circuits as far apart as you can get them.
I would also shorten the servo wires so to avoid having to coil up the excess.
Also, twist all the wiring.
My 2 cents.
"Vini, Vidi, Velcro" |
