Turnigy Cam HK52 Super Test

[redshift]

I had forgot you mentioned the R trigger and such. The foam pad on the standoff mount seems to induce vibes rather than dampen them. That's one thing you'll have to play with on each different cam or vehicle, but rule of thumb is direct mount first, then mess with foam etc. if needed.

If you wanted to eliminate the interface you could either solder to the pins externally on the back of the cam, or better yet, directly to the inner wiring. I'm telling you this up front because the standoff mount was a total fail on my truck lol. The cam just flopped like crazy, made the video useless. AND I even tried some 3M industrial velcro (grey) and that was too thick also and acted like foam. So finally I used only high grade black velcro, and that was the ticket. Only took like 3 videos to get it right, not a big hassle, and gave me some practice both using the cam and saving files.

Good luck with your build, should be a good video mount!

[simplechamp]

After seeing how easily the case was to open I've debated actually removing the case altogether, and making a more RC-friendly case and/or mount for the cam.

Basically, just take the guts out of the plastic shell, maybe do some hardwiring as you mentioned, and also look at a better way to mount the lens/CCD. I don't really plan on using the swivel, and like you said before for our purposes the swivel is more of a hindrance than a help.

I think mounting the lens/CCD separate from the rest of the hardware could solve some vibration issues (or create more? who knows?) Get rid of the flimsy ribbon cable, replace it with some longer wires, and make a nice solid mount for the lens/CCD, and the rest of the cam guts can be stowed away lower on the chassis.