FY-G3 GoPro Brushless Gimbal Manual

The FY-G3 Brushless gimbal is a ultra fast and smooth gimbal that you can use with your GoPro 3 camera to provide ultra smooth videos.  This brushless gimbal comes 90% assembled and is preconfigured to use with your gopro camera, so you don't need to do any tuning.

Buy FY-G3 Brushless Gimbal

Parts Included with Gimbal

FY-G3 Phantom Version Parts

• The FY-G3 brushless gimbal was originally released as the standard version and has now been replaced by the phantom version.
• The gimbal is still the same for both, but the phantom version has phantom compatible mounting plates and is slightly shorter to fit underneath the phantom quadcopter.

FY-G3 Dimentions - Standard Version

Front View

Side View

Fy-G3 Assembly (Standard Version)

Top Plate assembly

Screws included with the gimbal

If your top plates look different (Phantom compatible plates), then please scroll down to see the phantom version

• The first step it to build the top mounting plate.
• First thing to do it to attach the rubber damping balls to connect the two plates

• You can then attach the load mounts to the plate as shown, these are used to mount them onto your frame.
• You dont need to use these load mounts if your frame does not support them.  Simply mount the gimbal to your frame using some spacers.

Main Gimbal Assembly

• Now you will need to attach the aluminium gimbal parts as shown in the image.  
• Take care to use some spring washers in the indicated locations.
• The final step is to attach your gopro 3 camera to the gimbal.

You can also mount the gimbal vertically if you want

• You can also mount the G3 brushless gimbal vertically if you want.
• The image shows you how to assembly the brushless gimbal so that its standing up.

FY-G3 Assembly (phantom Version)

• The assembly of the Phantom version is basically the same as the regular version, just that the top plates have a slightly different shape.

• If you are not mounting this gimbal to your DJI Phantom frame, you can still mount it to regular multirotor frames by using the load hangards that are included.
• Attach them to the plate as shown using the M2.5x5 screws.

Connecting Everything

G3-Gimbal Standard Version

• Connect the various cables as shown in the image.
• The 4pin gimbal connector from the motors goes into the white connector next to the pushbuttons.
• The power and receiver connectors are on the side.
• You dont have to connect the receiver cables if you dont want to.

G3-Gimbal Phantom Version

• If you are using the Phantom version of the G3-Gimbal, the connection is the same.
• The connectors are just located in slightly different positions as shown in the image.
• The 4pin gimbal connector from the motors goes into the white connector next to the pushbuttons.
• The power and receiver connectors are on the side.
• You dont have to connect the receiver cables if you dont want to.

Updating Firmware

• If you want to update the firmware on your gimbal, this is possible via the USB cable provided
• Connect the cable to the port on the top plate of the FY G3 gimal, 
• The USB side of the cable is connected to your computers USB Port.
• You can find the latest firmware updates here.

Connecting a battery

• The FY-G3 gimbal comes with connector with loose wires on one end so you can solder whatever battery connector you want.
• You should use a 2-4S battery to power this gimbal (3S is reccomended)
• You can either solder the gimbal directly to your multicopter PDB if you want to power the gimbal from the main flight battery.
• Alternatively you can simply solder a JST connector onto the wire so you can plug it into a small battery (500mah)

Controlling your FY-G3 Gimbal with APM/Pixhawk

• You will need to connect the receiver cable between your FY-G3 gimbal and your APM or Pixhawk output port.
• Now within the APM mission planner software connect to your autopilot and go to Initial Setup > Optional Hardware > Camera Gimbal.
• On the Tilt drop down select the corresponding output channel that you connected the FY-G3 cable to your autopilot 
• In the diagram above, the gimbal is connected to the Pixhawk AUX OUT 1 port which corresponds to RC 9 in the mission planner.
• Now make sure the Stabilise Tilt button is not checked as the gimbal unit has this functionality built in.
• Finally you need to select the Input Ch, this is the channel you will use to control the pitch of the gimbal which is usually the rotary knob on your radio transmitter.  In the image above this is set to CH 6.

If you have any questions, or want to share a video please do so on DroneTrest