 Hello everyone, so I thought I'd get the light in halfway decent. I thought I'd use an old Taranis case. This is what my first Taranis came in, the standard one. Just as a quick thing about the Taranis radio, the X9D or XD9 Plus, get the updated version, get the better version. The original one is alright, but the switches aren't so great. It's got the old regular sticks. If you get the other one, everything's better on it. The switches are better, the pots are better. It's all better, even the case feels better. I'm just saying that because I was the best upgrade I did. I was going from the standard one, the metal case, and then going to the better one, the enhanced version, let's call it. Which came in a fabric case. And that's better if I stick in my backpack and get me about. But I decided I wanted to reuse this for something. It's not the sort of thing I look about with me. And I did some customisation. A couple of V-knows before you know your stick and stickers on everything. So what I decided to do was pull out a lot of the insides. So this is what we've got here. Put out a lot of the insides and I got given a laptop that was useless. It had been soaked and I think more had happened to it because even once it was all dried out it wasn't any good to motherboard. There was no point in me doing it up for spares because it's just not worth it. I've got a laptop, I've got a Dell M8, I said M4800. And that's the ideal for me. So what I had to do is see if I can just zoom in on that. So I had to get the number off the back here. Which I think if I cut this right. Yeah, it's got to be one of these because this is what I used. You take the number off, it's that B116OW03V1. Then go looking for a driver board. And here is a driver board for it. You can't see it but here it is. This is the driver board cost $25 off eBay. And it enables me to plug in my AV signal. Which is cool, that's exactly what I want it for. It also enables me to plug in a HDMI output. So if you're going to, let's say you want to play an HDMI game system. It's got a TV, analog, digital tuner built into it. And I've tried it, yeah, you get stations. It's pretty good. I've got a little tiny telescopic area where I'm using. You get stations and it's also got the USB facility. And it'll play AVI MP4s. I've only tried, sorry, I've tried the MKV. That didn't work. I've got video, great, but did no audio. And MPG2, I think it was. That played as well. So three out of the four that I tried to play. Most of mine are MP4s anyway. But some pieces, so that was pretty good. I found some old, I don't even know where these came from. But you know, I'm not having them in here for high fidelity or anything like that. But they did give me audio. So if I did want to play it, you know, for whatever reason. And it's all good, it'll play and I can hear it as well. So all I'm doing to fit mine is I'm using like chunks of quite firm foam. And then velcroing them. I intend on moving this up the back of the case. Because the actual, I kept, you see on here, you've just got the back of the screen. And I didn't think that was going to be very supportive if it was going to go on the back here. And it got sat on or something happened to it. So I've used the case. And that was part of this computer. This has got all these little pressure pads and bits and pieces in here. And that just velcrosing. I'm going to run these cables up first. I'll have to do jump cuts for it because, you know, I've got the camera in one hand and I'm not going to do all this with just the other hand. But I'm going to run these cables up. One of them so I can use buttons for the settings and bits and pieces. Even though it does come with a remote control, full remote control. And that does everything. I've tried all that stuff. That does everything. And it also has the receiver for the remote control. I'm going for it there. I'm going for it there. And so I'm going to run that up there as well and just velcro it up. You can see just velcro it up out of the way. Because there's enough, there's a bit of space here. And I also wanted to leave just a little bit of space up there because I've got a bit of foam that will go all the way around this and just stick out a bit. So a bit of a, let's say, a sunscreen type thing. But that's how that's going to go in. And to be honest with you, I might not even need to velcro these. They might be able to just sit up there on top of that. But I probably will velcro it just so the sunscreen is out for any sort of reason. This will just stay in place. So let me do that now. And I'll come back to you. Okey dokey. Right. So now what we're going to do is I'm just going to show you how to connect up this. Just because it may be a bit problematic for some. Let's go ahead and go. I mean, it's basically, you just kind of push it in. I hope you can see what I'm doing. Just push it in until we're going to fit. But it's going to be the wrong way around. There you go. That's it. Now what I'm going to do is just to make sure that this doesn't have a problem coming out. Because this is on some sort of electronic bar. Possibly, I don't know. It's just there. So I'm just going to put a little bit of tape. I'm going to use this. Some of this canvassy type tape. I do have some of the clear stuff. A bit thinner as well. But I'm going to just use this. Put a bit of that on. Just to help keep that in place. Because what I've been fapping about with this, it has managed to pull itself out a couple of times. And if you're out in the field, I've not even told you what I'm doing, have I? I've not even told you what I'm doing. So the idea is, I've got a whole bunch of receivers that I don't really get to use. Because my monitor has got a receiver built in. And I'm going to use the same lugs on this as what's there for it anyway. Because I'm using the actual outer case for the little laptop that was in it. So that will fit on there. I see these little lugs. He says, come on. You're going to be going a bit easier. What's going on here? It's all like that. The tape there has made it a bit. I can't take it to work. There we go. There we go. And it all just sits in quite nicely. I'll pop the screws in. Because that gives me access to it. You see, if I do need to get in and out of it, it gives me access to it. Which was the whole idea I wanted to have access. And I don't know if you can see that there. Up the top there, we've got the controls. And there's the remote. Just with Velcro. And the idea was, the idea is, even once it's on the right channel and stuff, I can put that bit of a sunscreen in there. So if I am sat out, I'll pull out table or whatever. And it's sat on there. Yeah, I've got a bit of a sunscreen. I know it's not ideal, but this is already recyclable. So apart from the old driver board, everything else I've been using before for things. Right. So what I'm going to do now is, I'm going to fit this back in here. I could get the right bit round the first go. Fit that back in there. Turn that there, because I don't... So I just fit this back into here. Because I unplugged it, it was easier for me to put that down the back of this. So it all goes down the back of the screen. And that will sit in there like this. It will sit in there like that. And then I've got this piece here. Which has already got some Velcro on there. I've already put it on. And then that is going to sit in there just to keep that in place. Because I wanted this to be firm enough to take a little bit of pressure because I'm not quite sure what battery I'm going to use yet. But I could use this. But that's what I normally use for my receiver. Be it the one with the monitor on it or not. I have some smaller ones, but these are my flight packs. These fit in the AR wing perfectly. And also, they fit in my quad perfectly. So I'm more likely going to use this one. Because it's a lot bigger capacitance. I'll also give me the options of maybe getting a few charges. At least one or two charges extra for the flight packs. It's 25 volts. But I'm going to be putting on a little power supply. Which will give me the indication of the voltage. Voltage out. And that's what I'll be using. Let me just grab this here. And excuse the mess everywhere. Well, if I kept trying to leave things until I got tidied up, I'd never get anything done. Because nothing ever stays tidied. So I'm going to use one of these. And this has got a little display here. So let me control the current. Control the voltage obviously. I only want 12 volts going out to everything. This is 12 volts. So what I'm going to do before I do much else. Because we've also got a few other bits. We've got wiring. We've got this wiring as well. Because this is a 5 volt feed. Going to this DVR recorder. This is a Runcam DVR recorder. And I'm using this 5 volt feed. Because I get to turn the power on and off. And turn the output on and off. If I don't, what it means is that even if I'm not using this. And this is just power doing stuff. This is getting quite warm. And I don't really like that. So we'll have this. Somewhere around there. The velcroed on. This all fits into this. You know, these just plug in. I've just kept the cables there as they are. Because of the... Because of the massive cable. That was 3 meters. About 4 meters of length. And yeah, so I'm going to get this done. Get this so it's velcroed in. And then start looking about how to fit this correctly. And maybe even velcro this into the bottom. I'm pretty much sure that I'm going to velcro in. We're not going to be pulling that much current through this. This is quite capable of doing it quite a bit. It's rated, I think. I can't remember what it is. It's above 200 watts. We're not going to be pulling anything like that. So it's a bit overkill. But it's what I've got. And it also gives me the ability to control the power. On and off. It enables me to see the power coming in from the battery displayed here. It enables me to, like I say, set the current. So we don't get any of those overcurrent situations. And to help protect the electronics. And yeah. And it's what I've got. I don't use it particularly anymore. So we're going to use it in this. Right, I'll come back to you when I've done some of that. Okay. Right. Let's pop that in there. So, what have we got to? We've got to this. So there it is. The screen's all fit back in again. Fit? Fit? The screen's back in again. No. Just for demonstration purposes. I'm just going to plug that in. I've got a... I'm not sure if this is the one. I've got a little... One of these adapters, you know, for all sorts. The SD card, standard, micro. I'm not going to go in there. Now, I've left that so it doesn't push against the back. It does get a little bit warm. Not too warm. But this is quite capable of taking the weight of this. Now, this probably wouldn't travel with me as such. In this case, I mean, it will come with me. In this case, but even if it did, I could use these couple of bits of frame here to sort of lock it into place. But just for the sake of it, I'm just going to take that out. Just to show you that, you know, this is velcroed in now. This isn't. This is what my... You can see if I zoom in on that bit better. So you get to see the input voltage, which is down the bottom, be in. And then I've set it to 12 volts, because that's what I need for this system. And I've also put a current element on it for 1 amp. So if we do get a short or anything dodgy goes on, as soon as it touches that 1 amp, a quick short, it'll just shut this down. Shut it down. So it won't do any damage. Now, over here, let's get the light in so it works better. This is the 12 volt in. It comes from here the same as what the adapter does, the barrel connected here. It comes into this. And the nice thing about this is why I just switch it on now. So now we've got an output. Okay, all the capacitors are charged. Now we've got an output. If I turn this on, you get to see that I've got... I don't know if you've been to see it very well, or at least if I back off there, can you see it? Just a light. Zoom into it. I don't know if it's going to pick it up in the actual video or not. Please say it's 11.8 volts. And the nice thing about that is that I can press this. This is Velcro down as well. You can see a little LED's. Come on, tell me there's an output. And now you can see over here, the blue's flashing because there's no SD card in there as you can see. The power's on. Which means if I'm not going to be using it, I can just switch it off. And this isn't going to sit there getting warmer. Okay, because I don't like that. You've got to think about it like, well, you know, think about it however you like, but I think about it like this. Any heat is energy. So we can switch this off. That's great. So I've got that for the DVR. For the digital video recorder. Now to turn on the screen itself. I can either use the remote control just by hitting that button there. A second or two and it should come onto my last setting. So there we've got the last setting. And that's the quad just looking out the window. And the great thing about this is it's got enough satellites to get going. But yeah, look, quick little thing. Enough satellites to get going. A lot of people might take off. But look at the H-stop, 2.4. Yeah, I wouldn't take off now. I'd wait for that to get down to about... I'll wait till I get like 12 or 13 satellites and that's about down to 1.5 or below. And then I know I've got a decent amount of satellites overlapping each other and I'm in the sweet spot where they all overlap. Until that point, it's not like that. So far as I'm concerned, I'm not safe to fly. I recently saw something about somebody who lost... They were doing a survey on the building site and their drone just disappeared. I've got a funny feeling it's something to do with that. Not having that low enough. Anyway, so I also get to see how much power I'm using. As you can see, a lot I'm using there. So 0.49 amps. So like I said, just under half an amp. And 5.87 watts. If I turn on this, I can see that we've just gone up a little time a bit. If I put the output on, now I can see that it's drawing about point... About... Yeah, so not quite 100 mA. But we're up to 7.07 watts. And using a battery like that, that's going to last for a long time. So, you know, it'll help do my battery packs. So I can also bring in this and bring this along with me. Which is a little smart charger. And that'll plug directly in to the battery. And it'll allow me to recharge some of my battery packs again. These are the ones I use in my quart and in the wing. So that's it. That is it. That's what I was intending on doing. Oh, just to show you here as well. I've not only done this thing, so like these are the inputs you've got. So if I go to the USB and just press Enter, and give it a few seconds, and I can go across here into the drive. Done, done. Just give it a few moments. There we go. To volume a bit. And there we go. That's an MP4 file. Snatch. Can't really play it, I suppose. So I can play that one. Can't get in trouble for that. So there you go, guys. It's, you know, like I say, that would probably be coming out with me or I can, you know, not living in the box when I'm carting it around. Or I can just use these two bits of foam just to make sure that it stays firmly in there when it is in there. And it will enable me to cart it around. I love the idea of having the bigger screen. It's, uh, it just gives you that little bit of extra, you know, I mean, well, you must know, they don't seem to be flying. If you're using the little screen, you use some of the bigger. Well, it'd be interesting to see how this goes, because like I say, I mean, this is just plugged into a receiver behind me. And that's just, um, you know, picking up the signal from my, from my quad there. Just, just shut up for a moment. So there we go. Little something to do. I thought, yeah, I'll use the case. I've got to use bits and pieces. I've got this power supply I don't really use for anything else. Um, but it's, you know, perfect for this, especially with the current control and things like that. I do like, you know, because if I, if I did short something out, that would take care of it. That gives a nice bit of protection across everything that's happening here. So, uh, yeah. Of course you've got the other inputs. Oh, I didn't show you the, uh, uh, little, little stick antenna. Just on the side here. Just fell off the side, but let's just see if we can get any TV stations. So go up to the DV, DVBT. Up there. There we go. Can't really play too much of that because I can't control for that. There you go. It all works. It works really well. Well, it works really well for me, um, in my viewpoint. So, thanks for watching guys, and, uh, and I'll see you in the next one. Probably, I'm not sure if this will be out with me straight away in the field, but, uh, we'll give it a go. Thanks for watching. Take care of yourselves. Stay safe.