Setups EZOSD on screen display

[WyDiablo]

Ok guys I did good at the casino the other day and I"m thinking about buying this OSD system http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/uploads/675949360X306559X33.pdf but not from HK. I under stand most of how the connections go for the hook up and I can't figure out the "ESC" connection. Do I connect one of my esc's to that? I"m lost guys and can't figure out what the heck I need to do as far as that connection goes. The link id for the instruction manual. My other question is I would guess that this system will take a 2S and up battery correct>

 

[Lee]

Here is a great video just released.
Its from ImmersionRC and shows the exact set up of all there products.

 

[WyDiablo]

Yea I watched the video but they only had one esc to connect to the osd. On a quad or hexa theres more than 1 but only one esc connection on the osd. So does a person not connect any thing in the esc port or what?

 

[pvolcko]

The ESC hookup is for tracking current use. On a quad or other multi-esc model you'd want put the "ESC" sensor inline between the battery hookup and whatever you're using to distribute power to the ESCs. Sometimes people use a built in distribution board/panel that in integral to the frame (such as on a QAV quad) or a standalone distribution board. Others make custom wire based setups to get power where needed. In any case you'd want the current sensor near the battery hookup, before it goes into the distribution point.

If you have a multi-battery setup with two or more parallel hookups (QAV bottom plates support this kind of parallel hookup method) you will not be able to track total flight pack current/capacity levels. You will instead hook up to one battery entry point and then keep in mind the capacity or current usage indication is times however many parallel packs you have. Or you just pretend you only have one battery in the thing and treat it's capacity level as the level for the whole system as a percentage (which is true, parallel battery systems draw more or less evenly across all the packs that are hooked up).

 

[SIXFOOTER]

The sensor unit as a male and a female battery connector on it, just connect it in line with your battery to the power input to your quad.

 

[WyDiablo]

I just watched a video of the osd hookup from FPVLAB. Basically I connect the TBS power from the bottom plate (where the battery is connected now) to the esc port and then connect my flight battery to the battery port of the current sensor

 

[pvolcko]

yup. With a single battery setup is it pretty simple.