TAROT GIMBAL

Tarot brushless gimbal with mounting plate

Two mounting screws

1 Attach tall legsIRIS’ four tall legs allow for a safe landing with the gimbal. Attach the two black legs to IRIS’ black arms and the two blue legs to IRIS’ blue arms.

Four tall legs with mounting clips, bolts, and nuts

Add the clip onto the bolt with the notch hooked into the notch in the arm.

Turn IRIS upside down, and set the leg into the notches on the bottom of the arm. Orient the leg near the motor and with the point in the leg facing towards the body of IRIS as shown below.

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2 Attach cameraYour Tarot gimbal is compatible with a GoPro HERO3, available from store.3dr.com.

Remove the two screws securing the blue face plate. Remove the plate, and loosen the set screw.

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face plate

remove

Slide camera into housing with the lens nearest the top-right corner.

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assembled leg

Add the nut to the bolt, and tighten to secure the leg to the arm. Attach all four tall legs to IRIS.

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Optional: To remove the short legs, use the small hex key (1.5 mm) to remove the screw in the bottom of the leg, and slide the leg out of the arm.

! Important note: Make sure that the WiFi on your GoPro is turned OFF at all times when in use with IRIS.

remove

loosen

Thread cables here

Place the blue face plate over the camera, and secure from the back with the two original screws.

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Add face plate.

Locate the orange, red, and brown three-wire cable protruding from the bottom of IRIS.

3 Connect

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Thread the cables through the interface plate.2

Follow these instructions to connect the gimbal to IRIS. This will allow you to control the tilt of the camera in flight using your RC transmitter. To enable automatic camera stabilization without RC control, skip to the step 3: power.

attach brown wire to ground (-)

Locate the pins on the Tarot board. Connect the brown wire to a - (ground) pin and the orange wire to the T (tilt) pin. Do not connect the red wire.3

attach orange wire to tilt (T)

tighten

5 Attach the gimbal to IRISUse the two mounting screws to attach the gimbal to IRIS using the two holes in the interface plate and the two holes in the bottom shell shown below.

Connect the gimbal power cable with the red, JST connector to the matching cable protruding from the bottom of IRIS. If you do not see the cable, please see the advanced gimbal instructions at 3dr.com/iris/info.

4 Power

Operating the gimbalStart your flight by following the preflight steps described in the IRIS Operation Manual and Flight Checklist.

Upon powering IRIS, the gimbal will display a solid yellow light while it is starting and calibrating. Do not touch the gimbal while it is starting up. When the gimbal displays a blinking blue light, it is ready to fly.

If the gimbal is not connected to the autopilot, it will perform automatic stabilization without enabled transmitter control, indicated by a solid blue light.

Calibrating, do not touch gimbal

Ready, connected to autopilot

Ready, not connected to autopilot

Mount the gimbal with the camera facing forward.

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IRIS Tarot Gimbal Manual A | ©3D Robotics, Inc. | 22 May 2014

Support

In the air, use the control knob on the RC transmitter to control the tilt of the camera.

Rotate counterclockwise to tilt the camera up.

Rotate clockwise to tilt the camera down.

Flying with a gimbal will reduce your flight time by as much as five minutes. Please plan your flights accordingly.