Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's a higher quality view of how the HEQ gimbal is working. This is a test that is giving the gimbal a really hard time, and not what I would say the thing is intended for. That said, it seems like companies are not far off from completely solving these issues. Maybe Caddx already has.
You can look in the rear view mirror to see what an unstabilized view looks like. I realized that the natural vibration of this truck when moving fast on road or at any speed off road likes to produce a good amount of side to side movement. Since I've locked the Yaw axis that basically just means that I have to deal with any Yaw vibration as I've prevented the gimbal from trying to do anything about it. Unlocking the Yaw does greatly help reduce all of the vibration, but then it allows that random hard twitching to come in at times and it's hard to steer properly with it compensating. Without adding some type of cage over the gimbal though, it's over with from one crash. The gimbal and air unit are both likely going to be destroyed. I worry less about that now though since my eyes are able to deal with the image a lot better.
This is about the third time I drove the gimbal around like this for about 10 minutes each giving it some rough terrain. You can hear how bad it must be bouncing around given the noise the radio is making banging against the truck. I haven't had any problems with it so far, at least as long as the gimbal is not disturbed while running. If it gets hit with a stick or something and gets thrown off balance, it seems like its able to correct itself if you just take it to level ground and let it sit there for a minute.
When I call out on the radio asking for Squatches you can actually see the pitch on the gimbal going a little nuts. hmm..
Here's a higher quality view of how the HEQ gimbal is working. This is a test that is giving the gimbal a really hard time, and not what I would say the thing is intended for. That said, it seems like companies are not far off from completely solving these issues. Maybe Caddx already has.
You can look in the rear view mirror to see what an unstabilized view looks like. I realized that the natural vibration of this truck when moving fast on road or at any speed off road likes to produce a good amount of side to side movement. Since I've locked the Yaw axis that basically just means that I have to deal with any Yaw vibration as I've prevented the gimbal from trying to do anything about it. Unlocking the Yaw does greatly help reduce all of the vibration, but then it allows that random hard twitching to come in at times and it's hard to steer properly with it compensating. Without adding some type of cage over the gimbal though, it's over with from one crash. The gimbal and air unit are both likely going to be destroyed. I worry less about that now though since my eyes are able to deal with the image a lot better.
This is about the third time I drove the gimbal around like this for about 10 minutes each giving it some rough terrain. You can hear how bad it must be bouncing around given the noise the radio is making banging against the truck. I haven't had any problems with it so far, at least as long as the gimbal is not disturbed while running. If it gets hit with a stick or something and gets thrown off balance, it seems like its able to correct itself if you just take it to level ground and let it sit there for a minute.
When I call out on the radio asking for Squatches you can actually see the pitch on the gimbal going a little nuts. hmm..
