Greengiant
Western Thunderer
Work has been progressing on installing a camera into the gantry crane.
We have managed to cut down the antenna that transmits the camera picture back to the handset screen, this along with the transmitter is located in a cabinet on the rear of the crane cabin. Just need to add a short length of plastic pipe over the lower section of the antenna to the cabinet and thinking of just blackening the final top section.
![45864001185_b8c080cf9a_c.jpg 45864001185_b8c080cf9a_c.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/199/199788-1a3ffe9d288afaeff6c1354c6d12719c.jpg)
Designed and 3D printed a mount for the screen at the front and the camera receiver at the rear, the mount just clips to the top of the transmitter. This set up is purely to test the concept and a custom controller box we be designed and built to house all the necessary hardware and electronics.
![39813790553_537467e339_c.jpg 39813790553_537467e339_c.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/199/199789-5191993c24fed83d06e58adf0a77e142.jpg)
![31837290587_0c930ee1a1_c.jpg 31837290587_0c930ee1a1_c.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/199/199790-a1c605f5c3719db7afd4dd8718855cb8.jpg)
![45864001405_ab3f054a9e_c.jpg 45864001405_ab3f054a9e_c.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/199/199791-4f5332cf4fd798273bf3d324700a1370.jpg)
Initial testing is encouraging once you get used to the concept that when operating the crane in normal mode, you stay still and the crane moves, when using the camera the ground moves, felt odd at first, but after a while we soon became accustomed with switching from one mode to the other. We just need to change the camera/screen 'ON' time from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
Martin
We have managed to cut down the antenna that transmits the camera picture back to the handset screen, this along with the transmitter is located in a cabinet on the rear of the crane cabin. Just need to add a short length of plastic pipe over the lower section of the antenna to the cabinet and thinking of just blackening the final top section.
![45864001185_b8c080cf9a_c.jpg 45864001185_b8c080cf9a_c.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/199/199788-1a3ffe9d288afaeff6c1354c6d12719c.jpg)
Designed and 3D printed a mount for the screen at the front and the camera receiver at the rear, the mount just clips to the top of the transmitter. This set up is purely to test the concept and a custom controller box we be designed and built to house all the necessary hardware and electronics.
![39813790553_537467e339_c.jpg 39813790553_537467e339_c.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/199/199789-5191993c24fed83d06e58adf0a77e142.jpg)
![31837290587_0c930ee1a1_c.jpg 31837290587_0c930ee1a1_c.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/199/199790-a1c605f5c3719db7afd4dd8718855cb8.jpg)
![45864001405_ab3f054a9e_c.jpg 45864001405_ab3f054a9e_c.jpg](https://www.westernthunder.co.uk/data/attachments/199/199791-4f5332cf4fd798273bf3d324700a1370.jpg)
Initial testing is encouraging once you get used to the concept that when operating the crane in normal mode, you stay still and the crane moves, when using the camera the ground moves, felt odd at first, but after a while we soon became accustomed with switching from one mode to the other. We just need to change the camera/screen 'ON' time from 5 seconds to 10 seconds.
Martin