User Manual
XProHeli Silk Gimbal
Silk Gimbal
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Mounting and Balancing Your Camera
Overview
The main goal for properly mounting your camera to the Silk is to
achieve good center of gravity alignment (balance) on the Pitch,
Roll and Yaw axis of the gimbal. This is vital to the Silk’s
performance!
A gimbal that is out of balance on one axis will lean to the heavy
side of the axis putting unnecessary strain on the brushless motors
and cause them to oscillate. The better balanced your setup the
better your video stabilization will be.
Mounting Camera
The SILK comes with (1) wide base CNC D-Ring (standard 1/4-20
thread) to mount your camera. The Camera is mounted through
the camera tray slot. The front to back position of the camera can
be adjusted to help balance the camera’s center of gravity front
to back.
To account for the true center of gravity of the camera, make sure
all the necessary batteries and flash cards are loaded in the
camera. Also make sure that you have the lens cap removed. If
you choose to run a filter/sunshade hood make sure you have that
installed too. Basically you need to make sure your camera is in the
same configuration as it would be when you film.
IMPORTANT TIP!
As a supplement to
this guide it is HIGHLY
recommended to
watch the Silk
balancing setup
video on our XProHeli
youtube channel!
IMPORTANT TIP!
Before balancing your
camera, make sure you
have the lens cap
removed and all
needed accessories
mounted to your
camera – don’t forget
the batteries!
