Yea saw that... did not think it was separate slaved gimbal.. how did you balance it... found it tough to do on the
P4P I modified but it had some limited function. How is it integrated with existing gimbal?
If you get a moment, see my thread about the M2E Flir camera. This is an early prototype of our (Drone Doctor UK) Thermal
Mavic 2. Integrating onto the existing gimbal is easy, the hardest part is making everything fit and balance as you say.
The version seen here uses a
Mavic 2 Zoom gimbal for cost reasons. The Pro gimbal is a bit larger, and it may be possible to use the Zoom camera module *and* a Boson 320 together on the Pro gimbal. If we achieve that then it will be an incredibly useful tool.
Obviously it's very possible that our project will end up stillborn if DJI's solution is good, and knowing DJI it
should be. However, as mentioned in my analysis thread, I believe there is a chance that DJI have based their camera on the Flir One, in which case it'll be very very poor for aerial use. There are two possible reasons why they would have done this:
1. All of DJI's existing thermal cameras are based on existing Flir products and the only difference between the Flir camera and the DJI version is that the DJI version is on a gimbal that integrates with a DJI drone. The XT is a Flir Tau on a DJI gimbal and the XT2 is a Flir Duo Pro R on a DJI gimbal.
2. If they use a Boson 320 (even more so for the 640) then that would be such a good solution that it will steal sales from the M210/XT2 range.
It's pointless speculating right now as we're going to find out tomorrow, however my summary is this:
If DJI have developed a
Mavic 2 solution using a Flir Boson sensor then this is going to be an absolute game changer. Simple as that. Nothing else will come close in terms of usability and performance.
However, if they have used a Flir Lepton, the thing will work fine but it will really, really struggle to detect targets at any useful distance and it will be rubbish at night time, since the low resolution sensors rely on MSX enhancement, which doesn't work very well at night.
If they've gone for the Lepton, as I believe they have, we will continue development of ours which will be ready for sale in Jan-Feb and will retail around 4500GBP + any taxes.