Emax TinyHawk: Repairing the camera when it comes loose

Crap! My Tinyhawk camera has popped out

I love the emax tinyhawk, even though it is 'only' 1s it is well suited as an indoor racer and they've recently started a spec class near me just for this. My full review of it is here. One one common furstration however is that the FPV camera can come loose in a crash and if you try to push it back in the wrong way you can easily snap the tabs on the frame that hold it in. I've prepared a simple step by step walkthrough heretht will allow you to fix it safely in less than 5 minutes (I timed it!).

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First you need to know that the camera is attached to the frame by two pastic tabs on the frame that holds it in the right place at the right angle. in a crash the camera can easily pop out of one or both of these tabs. Below are the steps needed to correct this, click on any of them to embiggen.

1. This is how my camera looked when it popped out.

2. First remove all 4 screws that fasten the battery holder to the chassis

3. The battery holder should now be loose. Slide the rubber grommets on the circuit board off the chassis

4. You can now see the camera and the tabs that should be holding it in place.

5. On mine the camera tab had popped out the back at the top (this is most common)

6. I used the same screwdriver nested in the hole of the camera board to lever it back in the slots in the chassis. Take care here!

7. Back in the correct position now held at top and bottom of the chassis

8. ...And how it should look from the back

9. Slide the circuit board grommets back on the chassis as a reverse of step 3. Put the battery holder back in place too.

10. Last step - fasten screws back up and you are ready to fly again!

So that is it really. While you are in there with the board out you also have to option of making the VTX antenna external (I tried, no noticeable improvment) and the rx antenna external which you can probably see in steps 9 and 10 when you expand the image. I haven't yet tried this out.

If you are looking for other improvements I'd recommend my step by step article on upgrading to the 4 bladed props that improves thrust and allows for turtle mode.

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