{"id":501,"date":"2014-04-13T08:01:52","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T07:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/?p=501"},"modified":"2014-04-13T08:10:02","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T07:10:02","slug":"cheap-ebay-brushless-gimbals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/cheap-ebay-brushless-gimbals\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap eBay brushless gimbals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really exciting how much the prices have dropped on brushless gimbal lately, and there are swarming with 70$ gimbals for gopro on ebay. I&#8217;ve seen some videos around youtube about their performance and it seems pretty good!<\/p>\n<p>So I got around and ordered me one for testing, turns out it worked fine out of the box:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w02Sgota3Vo?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Great! I sold that gimbal to a friend and ordred me a new one, why not? They are working out of the box. Only mount your gopro camera onto it and power it on! So I thought.<\/p>\n<p>My second gimbal arrived in a different box, and after closer inspection it has a different layout on the PCB, it also has a micro usb instead of a mini usb. So what, I mounted my gopro and powered it up. Heres my results:<\/p>\n<p>Listen closely, can you hear that cracking noise?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IOGEoiyYLrk?rel=0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After several rounds of testing, I still get the same results. So I contacted my eBay seller and complained about it. Long story short, he is now sending me a new controller board. He also provided me with some manuals written in chinglish. They might come in handy, especially if you also are having trouble with one of these gimbals:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/22uv98zkoq5x7kq\/China%20Gimbal.rar\" target=\"_blank\">Dropbox link for manuals.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s really exciting how much the prices have dropped on brushless gimbal lately, and there are swarming with 70$ gimbals for gopro on ebay. I&#8217;ve seen some videos around youtube about their performance and it seems pretty good! So I got around and ordered me one for testing, turns out it worked fine out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[338,336,67,334,335,78,333,337],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-rc","tag-bgc","tag-brushless","tag-cheap","tag-china","tag-copy","tag-ebay","tag-gimbal","tag-simple"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stigern.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}