Eli Ljung
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Yup. Could not figure out why the horizon was slightly off even after calibration on a level surface (it was always coming up slightly rolled counter-clockwise.). Then I noticed that when I just visually sight across the horizontal carbon fiber crosspiece at the back of the gimbal to the horizontal platform the camera sits on, they are not aligned! These two surfaces should be perfectly parallel at all times, regardless of what the gimbal motors are doing (they are physically connected by a series of right angles that shouldn't be anything other than right angles).
It looks like what happens is that the camera platform droops slightly under the weight of the camera when you unlock it to make a vertical balance adjustment, and locking it again does not correct this droop but instead locks it in place. You can get a better alignment if you apply upward pressure under the camera while you lock the vertical balance lock, but still, it's actually really difficult to get it perfect. At least with my unit, even with upward pressure the locking mechanism seems to drive the platform a half degree or so down from true horizontal. Not an ideal design! |
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