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Got my new goggles today and although I have just hooked them up for a few minutes I can say they are awesome! The picture is better that the Craig TV. The head tracking works great. I had to plug them into the ground station but when I modify the trimersion base station to transmit it will be wireless as well. Oh, BTW Brandon, my soldering station just came. I might try it out by removing the 2.4ghz transmitter from the base station.
 
Nice, Mike! I got mine today, too. :) They accidentally sent me the 8000 series. Would you be interested in trading? I like the 4000 better because its a bit easier to adjust with just knobs. If not, no big deal at all, I'll send it back to them, but I thought I'd ask you before I did. :)

Brandon
 
BTW, Zach put the hot air to good use today and removed a memory chip from a stick of computer RAM... :lol: We also almost caught a box on fire with it. :D

Brandon
 
Actually I kinda like the knobs too. :D I saw the 8000 and thought it looked like it would be quite a bit more tedious to adjust. Is it the same besides the knobs? If so, I think I'll stick with what I have. BTW, I already injured myself with it. :D I stabbed myself with a screwdriver trying to tighten one of those nozzles on it.
 
Anyone flying this weekend? I will be out both days if the weather holds out. Looks like the temp will be good but hopefully the wind isn't too bad :)
 
Cool - I definitely want to see those goggles.

Brandon, you need to blow the cobwebs off that Avistar :D
 
Are you thinking of Smyrna or Columbia? I am hoping to get rid of a lot of the ground station clutter and put a lot of it on my tripod. With the goggles being wireless I can put the ground station out a little ways and not have to worry about interference from my radio.
 
I'm thinking Columbia, at least for one day. I will be taking out the Wagstaff Extra and would prefer a paved runway to land it ... less chance of it nosing over than on grass.
 
rcmike said:
Actually I kinda like the knobs too. :D I saw the 8000 and thought it looked like it would be quite a bit more tedious to adjust. Is it the same besides the knobs? If so, I think I'll stick with what I have. BTW, I already injured myself with it. :D I stabbed myself with a screwdriver trying to tighten one of those nozzles on it.
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That is exactly right... it is a lot more tedious. I'm gonna have to send it back. Just thought I'd ask first! :) I don't think its any different other than that, too.

Glad to hear its breaking you in already. ;)

Brandon
 
I tried it wireless with the base station from the trimersion goggles last night and I am getting some interference. No matter what channel I have it on I get lines in the video. It could be something in the house since it is 2.4ghz. I'll have to investigate further.
 
I gave the soldering station a workout today. Since the base station wasn't working well I decided to take just the transmitter part off and see if I could get it to work by itself. I used the hot air to take it off and then soldered a sma connector on it so I could put a better antenna on it and soldered some power wires and video/audio wires to it. I plugged it all in and it works! I then put some hot glue on the wires for strain relief and then heatshrinked it. It went from a big, bulky unit to one that is probably 1"X2"X1/4"

BTW, Brandon, did yours come with any instructions? Mine had a couple of papers about removing the screws in the bottom and such but no real directions. Mainly looking for some recommended settings on where to set the air and temp for different type jobs, etc.
 
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According to the display it stays pretty consistent. I am new to it so Brandon could probably describe it better but you can do stuff like I did earlier. I removed the transmitter part off of the base station that came with my trimersion goggles. It has probably 16 pins or so holding it to the main circuit board. I was able to heat them all up at once to get it off. Without it it would have been very difficult to get it off because with a regular soldering iron when you went from one pin to the next the first one would cool off and you wouldn't get anywhere. Also, look up reflow soldering on Youtube. There are some pretty cool videos that show what you can do with it.
 
rcmike said:
According to the display it stays pretty consistent. I am new to it so Brandon could probably describe it better but you can do stuff like I did earlier. I removed the transmitter part off of the base station that came with my trimersion goggles. It has probably 16 pins or so holding it to the main circuit board. I was able to heat them all up at once to get it off. Without it it would have been very difficult to get it off because with a regular soldering iron when you went from one pin to the next the first one would cool off and you wouldn't get anywhere. Also, look up reflow soldering on Youtube. There are some pretty cool videos that show what you can do with it.
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I had a few times I could have used that to remove a chip.

It looks like the air with nozzles can be used to heat large diameter wire that the iron wouldn't be able to handle. I was going to get a Weller setup for the house that was just the iron and controller for just a tad less than that whole setup. I may be giving that one a try before long.
 
Anyone flying tomorrow? I am thinking of maybe going to Columbia and doing some more testing of my skywalker. It looks a little warmer on Sunday but quite a bit more wind.
 
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