hi i am so sorry what not enough tears
that better i was wrong so yes apparently i was completely wrong about the new lidar system not
being able to be used outside of the gimbal a bunch of you commented as well as dm'd with me
the link to the dji video showing you can indeed use the lidar by itself what i want
to do today is try to recreate the literally like 15 second guide that they created to see
if it actually works and how it was different from what i did in the previous video that made
it not work the first step is going to be setting up all of your lenses and calibrate
them with the lidar system using the gimbal so that's right you still need to have the rs3 pro
now obviously i've already calibrated them because i've been using it a ton what i
thought is it would save that data in the lidar module it actually saves it in the focus module
interesting apparently another mistake i made last time is trying to power them both
separately and that was unnecessary so i'm just going to go ahead and grab my handy dandy battery
bank here and i'm going to disconnect the cables from the gimbal and then i also need to disconnect
the dzo lens okay so everything's disconnected all right so all we should need is two cables to get
this going all right so the first step is going to be attaching the focus module to the lidar
and we are going to be using the port that has data through it not just the one with the usb
and now we need to give it power and what that video shows is using the other port of the focus
motor and this is where i ran into issues in my testing yesterday's first i used a standard
usb type a port and a cable for that this one is 5 volts 2.4 amps and in the instructions i
believe you need a 7 to 12 volt power because in the video they show usbc to 12 volt cable
i can't find that cable anywhere it doesn't look like the two cables that are included with the
lidar system can't find it on the accessories page so um all right you know what i will take this off
so you can see the back so anyway i have the focus motor plugged into the lidar and now let's give
them both power i don't know if you guys can see it but on top of the focus motor it is now red
just correct and then it should start feeding you can see it feeding power to the lidar system which
is now blinking green when i used the improper cable that i think wasn't supplying enough power
the back of the lidar was blinking red which if you look at the user guide it means firmware
updating and so first i thought okay maybe i just have to like give it a bit to sync the lens data
but i left it for like 20 minutes and it never stopped to me that just said that hey this isn't
supplying enough power to the devices but then i got blinking green so i thought blinky green i can
do with that we just need to calibrate the lens i'm going to hit function twice it's going to go
through do its thing okay lenses cal braid did its thing now here is the problem still blinking green
this is where i'm stuck i cannot get past solving this problem first i thought okay for more updates
nope check the app did all that it's up to date i completely recalibrated the lens in the gimbal i
tried having everything powered on calibrated the lens and then immediately unplugging from
the gimbal and plugging in here i tried hot swapping where i kept power to the focus motor
using the other plug and then plugged it into here and then plugged into the battery i have tried
every combination to get this to work so obviously yes we all know it's now possible dji says so the
issue seems to be in the cable that you are using in the instructions it says use a multi-camera
connector or multi camera here what they call it but it's this cable it shows in the lidar
packaging a another cable has a little box to it when dji sent me this i got a i mean it was pretty
much a new these are all production products these aren't prototypes but i got them not in finished
packaging so like this just came in a little white box and a bunch of bubble wrap so i don't have
that cable but in the tutorial video you don't see that cable anywhere it looks like just one
of these cables and then that dc 12 volts to usb type-c cable which again i can't find anywhere
yeah that's kind of where i'm at i would love to be able to use this off of the gimbal i mean
for this specific scenario it'd be great you know i've never had autofocus for a main angle
and i just have a little focus uh nucleus nano on the bottom here under my table so if you ever see
me reach down that's what i'm doing if i want to like zoom into a product i have to pull my focus
manually and then back to me so it'd be great to have the lidar system you know on this rig but
until i figure out that cable issue or you know you guys seem to be the detectives of the internet
let's try solving this problem together so i'm sorry that this video isn't finishing with a
major success i've been trying for basically three days now searching the internet for answers but
since no one really has the lidar system yet there just isn't much out there see in the next video oh
wait wait do have one cool update if you get this gimbal and just get these ugly dangling cables out
of the way i am proud of this so i was using an important piece that comes with the gimbal
to attach the follow focus it was this little guy connects on the quick release plate in the
back you have the focus module you can put this i had on the other side which was nice but if i
wanted to take the camera off and go hand held i'd have to like thumb screw this off or use an
allen key to loosen it and take it off and so it still took a little bit of time to go from gimbal
to handheld but now i'm using that piece that i rigged together as a lens support and using it
in its intended purpose just go on the front of the base plate and then i'm just using that same
follow focus riser and adapter so now the follow focus is attached to the base plate which means
quick release is an actual quick release and the camera just comes right off and boom i'm hand held
and this whole rig stays together i don't need to unplug k even when all the cables are plugged in
the only thing is the cyber lens i guess that cable i have to unplug but if you're using any
other lens besides this one just comes off and then slide it back on and we have our whole
gimbal set up again so thumbs up for at least giving you something useful in this video