CG03 camera to the 500H

[WOTTHEFAQ]

any help would be greatful

I was given a hexacopter with a broken camera it had suffered a crash and the camera had been torn off and the wires broken luckily I was given several cameras that were the CG02 3 pin tab 3 wire connector and CG03 just a 6 pin While trying to connect the camera to the drone I noticed that on the hexacopter there is No separate 3 plug port for the wire from the camera to plug into the hexacopter there is only a tab with a six pin connector I don't know what I'm meant to do as there are wires coming from the 6pin plate to a 6pin plug that looks like somebody has joined , but there is no corresponding 6 pin to plug into there is space for a 5 and 3 pin cable but not 6 all of the fixes i have seen solder from 6 pin tab to something totally different than what i see

 

[h-elsner]

I do not exactly know, what you have and what you want to do. Can you please explain and specify what drone type and what camera type you have. The gimbal board seem to be from CGO3 (not+).

Just for understanding:

• GB203, CGO2 and CGO3 working with 12V (3S battery). They have +Vbatt, GND and PWM signal.
• CGO3+ with 16V (4S battery). It has +Vbatt, GND, Tx and Rx UART to control the camera. Also there is a fall-back to PWM foreseen if the UART connection could not established.

• Q500 has the same connections like GB203, CGO3, 3wire and 12V
• Typhoon H (hexa) has the 4wire connection and 16V + the fallback to PWM for camera tilt.
• Typhoon H Plus, H520: Different control messages, not compatible, working only with UART connection without fall-back to PWM. Also 4S battery (16V, possibly more with HiV-Lipo).

That means you can attach the CGO3 to Typhoon H (but better is to be on the safe side with step-down converter 16 to 12V).
I think you can also use the CGO3+ on a Q500 but I'm not sure if the 12V power is enough for proper work of the gimbal. The cameras itself works with 5V - there should never be a problem. The voltage converter is always on the gimbal board. Power and PWM signal is enough but you cannot turn the camera around, only tilt by fall-back function.

The exact wiring and signal positions for the different cameras can be found in the WTFDproject documentation here in the forum.

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[WOTTHEFAQ]

thanks for the quick reply, I will elaborate the best i can. I am trying to get 1 of the 2 cameras I have for the hexacopter Typhoon H to work with the drone and I would like to see the image on the remote (which is st16 i believe,)

the camera did have 6 color wires that were severed and only attached to the pic 1 with 6 tab pins, but no wires were actually joined to the board in pic 3 and 4 so I don't know where to attach them wires coming off the 6pin tab ,that i rewired to a 6pin plug i followed the pic bellow to rejoin the wires but the board that its meant to be plugged into doesn't have 6 pin socket? where am I meant to plug it? or is there any other options to get a camera to work with the hex and remote thanks for your help

 

[h-elsner]

I still do not understand what you want to doing. You said, you want use a camera from Typhoon H, right? This is then a CGO3+. The pictures in the first thread are from a GB203 or CGO3. So, what camera do you have?
To what drone do you want to attch the camera? To a Q500?

The 6pin plug in the piczure above is inside the CGO3+. It connects the wires from rotate part to the round gimbal board.
The more intersting thing is the upper part of the picture. It tells you what wires with which colors are connected to what.
White and green belongs to the UART (Tx, Rx). White is also the PWM signal in case of fall-back functionality. White is what you would need for the Q500 to carry the PWM signal for camera tilt.


The picture is from CGO3 gimbal board + pigtail cable.

 

[WTFDproject]

I also may have problems understanding your intent. But I think you are trying to wire a CGo3 with the intent of mounting it on a Typhoon H. And I think you are trying to mix/match the mount parts and wiring to do so. If that is your goal, here are some thoughts based on the images in the previous posts:

The pictures you posted in Post #1 are mostly from a CGo3 camera, but things are messed up. The top mount is from a CGo3+, which may be where you got the idea there should be six wires. No. The CGo3 only uses 3 wires. Further, the wiring coming out of the top mount in the pictures has six wires, as if someone tried to imitate a CGo3+ arrangement. That will not work on a CGo3.
Worse, the six wires are routed into a connector instead of the correct 3 wires (only) being soldered directly to the CGo3 gimbal board. (Other options exist, including an option to use a plug, but no CGo3 alignments involve more than 3 wires.)

The drawing in post #3 has NOTHING to do with the wiring of a CGo3. It should be discarded if your camera is a CGo3.

It might be a good idea to forget the Typhoon H for a while. Get the correct parts, correctly assemble and wire CGo3 and see if the camera will still power up and stabilize. The three wires used by a normal CGo3 mount are in the same position as the equivalent 3 wires mount on a CGo3+ camera mount. No modification is required. Just mount it on the Typhoon H. As mentioned by @h-elsner, the Typhoon H voltage is higher than the normal input voltage of the CGo3. The CGo3 may or not successfully regulate it.

 

[WOTTHEFAQ]

I also may have problems understanding your intent. But I think you are trying to wire a CGo3 with the intent of mounting it on a Typhoon H. And I think you are trying to mix/match the mount parts and wiring to do so. If that is your goal, here are some thoughts based on the images in the previous posts:

The pictures you posted in Post #1 are mostly from a CGo3 camera, but things are messed up. The top mount is from a CGo3+, which may be where you got the idea there should be six wires. No. The CGo3 only uses 3 wires. Further, the wiring coming out of the top mount in the pictures has six wires, as if someone tried to imitate a CGo3+ arrangement. That will not work on a CGo3.
Worse, the six wires are routed into a connector instead of the correct 3 wires (only) being soldered directly to the CGo3 gimbal board. (Other options exist, including an option to use a plug, but no CGo3 alignments involve more than 3 wires.)

The drawing in post #3 has NOTHING to do with the wiring of a CGo3. It should be discarded if your camera is a CGo3.

It might be a good idea to forget the Typhoon H for a while. Get the correct parts, correctly assemble and wire CGo3 and see if the camera will still power up and stabilize. The three wires used by a normal CGo3 mount are in the same position as the equivalent 3 wires mount on a CGo3+ camera mount. No modification is required. Just mount it on the Typhoon H. As mentioned by @h-elsner, the Typhoon H voltage is higher than the normal input voltage of the CGo3. The CGo3 may or not successfully regulate it.

thanks you are spot on my camera is CGo3 the drone is hexacopter typhoon H the reason i thought it needed 6 wires is because the bottom of the drone has a 6pin pad as the connector the camera still powers up as i have now tested it on a 3 pad handheld controller that holds the camera stable to take pics and stuff it looks like an rc remote i used it with wire config that
h-elsner posted above thank u , my question the typhoon h has a 6 pin connector do just wire it up to a 3 pin tab that i have off another camera thank you for your help between you both i understand whats gone wrong i think..

 

[WTFDproject]

....., my question the typhoon h has a 6 pin connector do just wire it up to a 3 pin tab that i have off another camera thank you for your help between you both i understand whats gone wrong i think..

Yes. Use an original CGo3 top mount with only 3 contact plates on the top of the camera. It will work with the 6 pin mount of the bottom of the Typhoon H.