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So I tried to fly the drone, and all went well until I tried to make the rotors go. No luck. It's connected to the transmitter, because when I turn it off, the naza books red like crazy. Turn on the TX and it goes back to normal. Any suggestions?

And here's the reply I got from helipal. Any help? We are sorry to tell you that this Gimbal is discontinued long time ago and you can find other camera gimbal at below link. Many thanks. http://www.helipal.com/fpv-system_camera-gimbal.html

After some back and forth with helipal, it seems you need to have the camera hooked up first, or the gimbal does nothing, and it can damage the motors. So now my issue seems to be one of connecting a non GoPro camera to this. I'm going to try connecting a micro USB to the wire and see what...

So possibly, I need to figure out this camera hook up thing first if a connected camera is necessary to activate the gimbal...

Here's the response from helipal: GoPro camera must installed before supplying power to the Gimbal. Failure to do so will result in damage to the Gimbal motors. Please check the wires connection whether correct, thanks. I forgot to tell them it's for a sd-8 gimbal.

So where do I go from here? It has power, and it doesn't work, so I'm guessing the gimbal is junk?

And this

OK took a quick video.

Yes, there are LEDs lit up. I'll try to get pics of all the connections. Maybe a half hour or so. Edit: the camera is a hero 4 knock off. But it has the exact same weight and dimensions.

Ugh. Tried to upload some pics of the gimbal, but they're too large. I'll have to resize then when I get home.

I was just gifted a storm drone 6, but there seen to be a few issues. Most notably, the gimbal. The previous owner said he couldn't get it to work "quite right". It came with the storm sd-8 gimbal. When I power on the drone, the gimbal doesn't adjust to horizonal. It just sits there. Does it...