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Minimum Weight to Balance Movi

Discussion in 'MōVI Pro' started by Shalin Mehta, Jan 22, 2018.

  1. Shalin Mehta

    Shalin Mehta New Member

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    What's the minimum weight required to balance the Movi in Roll and Tilt?

    I couldn't find the mass of the tilt motor or TSU in the manual.
     
  2. Andy Johnson-Laird

    Andy Johnson-Laird Administrator
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    Hi Shalin:
    I don't remember seeing that information anywhere, I'm afraid. I'm not sure whether it's ever been tested...let's see if anyone from FF tech support can supply some information (they read the forum posts regularly).

    Forgive my curiosity, but why do you need to know? What I do know is that when people try to use a camera and glass that's too light, the Autotune is not happy and you get vibrations (higher frequency) and/or oscillations (lower frequency) so you do have to add weight to the mass in motion on the gimbal.

    Andy

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  3. Shalin Mehta

    Shalin Mehta New Member

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    In another post, someone suggested using very low stiffness values (10) instead of the autotune when I had the gimbal completely unloaded and it worked.

    I'll be doing some testing using a variety of devices and I'm going to be mounting adjustable sliding weights to make balancing the gimbal after swapping devices much easier. The devices will be relatively light so I want to make sure that the gimbal can still be balanced.

    Thanks!
     
  4. Andy Johnson-Laird

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    There may be other forum members who would be interested in knowing what you find, Shalin, so please consider posting your results.

    Andy

    Forensic Software & sUAV / Drone Analyst : Photographer : Videographer : Pilot (Portland, Oregon, USA): Trees=2, Ground=1, Props=11. :(
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