FPV screen on a Turnigy Evolution.

[Reman]

As it seems I can't use goggles without kicking off a dizzy spell (Meniere's disease is a real bitch !!! ) I can only use screens to fly.

Anyway, The previous two times Hobbyking had the Evolution TX on offer I kept toying with getting one but the lack of any easy way to mount a screen to it made me hold off. Both times when the sale ended I was kicking myself for not getting one........ This time I just thought "F*ck it, I spend more than that a week on coffee", So put one in the basket and got it.

OK, Then came the problem of mounting an FPV screen to it. I played with several ideas, but most of them were pretty complex projects for the sake of using a 30 quid TX. So for inspiration I looking at off the shelf mounts to see if anything could be tweaked to work. Nothing jumped out at me, But I did see one mount that used something like Gopro mounting "Knuckles". As I've bought a couple Chinese Gopro-a-likes in the past I've also got the 15,000 or so different mounting bits that always seem to come bundled with them. It only took a couple of minutes to find a piece that would screw into the tripod mount on the bottom of the monitor, A flat permanent "Clip in" mount with ridiculously sticky double sided foam tape, and a bridge piece to join them. What I've done is this..........









....And I can even still get the cover on....



The plastic case on this transmitter feels really stiff so I'm pretty sure it's not going to snap off the TX's built in screen. I was a bit worried about the center of gravity moving so far forward though, But after playing on FPV Freerider for about half an hour with it setup like this I'm pretty sure it's going to be fine, If it does cause a problem I'll velcro the screens battery to the bottom of the TX to balance it out a little more. Surprisingly, The mount on the back is stuck on solid as a rock (I don't know what  kind of foam tape is on this mount, But after seeing what it's like on this I'm glad I'd never got it into my head to use one of these stick on mounts anywhere near my car's bodywork !!!). Before I'd used it I was thinking I'd probably need to take the case apart and fit some screws through to make sure that mounting plate wasn't going to move, I REALLY don't think that's going to be an issue though......... I could have problems if I ever want to take the mounts plate back off, But I'm pretty sure it's not coming off in use  ::)

I've got a second one of these stick on base plates and I'm thinking that if put it on the TX's gimbal cover I could clip the screen on it (facing the TX) and have a reasonably safe place to park the screen when the TX and monitor was in my bag.

So, There you have it. If anyone has an Evolution and is looking for an FPV screen mount, This could be a useful idea for you. :)

[shawdreamer]

Played with that idea when I got mine but found putting anything above the evo made it so top heavy it would feel uncomfy in the hand, ended up mounting a Samsung s3 below running off a ROTG02 otg vrx, 3d printed the phone and RX mount so it was all neat and tidy when done... Think I put pics up in my new design thread, added bonus is you can record direct to the phones SD card so dont need a dvr either.

ps, thought I had....