Recent content by CFster

Yes. Once I got entirely through a real estate shoot and realized the damned thing hadn’t recorded any pictures.

I’ll press the button on the remote and nothing happens - no rotating circle while writing to the card. Then I’ll press the shutter button on my iPad and it works. Then the next time it won’t work via the iPad and the button on the controller works. It seems to be random as to which one will work.

Sigh...

Yes, the ice cube tray suggestion for the screws is an excellent one. Those little buggers are very easy to lose. They’re tiny. Also, make sure you have a high quality Phillips screwdriver that’s the correct size. I stripped out the heads on two screws during disassembly.

Phew! The motor was the whole problem. Disaster averted. I was not looking forward to changing out that ESC board...

Yes, when shooting bracketing it would be normal for that circular amination around the shutter button to appear as it takes a few seconds to write all five exposures to the card. I quickly noticed that when my unit was going to fail in writing those images there would be no button animation -...

This happens to me all the time and it’s aggravating. I always shoot five AEB shots of everything. After initially taking off I go to take the picture and the little camera shutter sound will come out of my tablet like it took the picture, then I’ll go to review the shots and they’re not there...

I have a new motor coming, so I guess I’ll see.

Didn’t crash, but the motor is almost locked up. Jambs when turning by hand.

One of my motors stopped spinning on take-off. Fortunately it hadn’t left the ground yet. When spinning the motor manually lots of crunching coming from inside. Got an ESC no 2 error. My question is how often is it just the motor. I’ve heard that sometimes it takes the ESC board with it. Is...

Any recommendations for drone repair in the Connecticut area, or somewhere I can ship an assembly to that can do a quick repair? I’m replacing a yaw arm on my P4P and have managed to strip the Phillips head on one of the screws going into the yaw motor. I can’t get it out.

Thank you. I never crashed. Is this a common problem? I have one of those gimbal covers that attaches to the legs - does it put undue stress on the arm? I’ve has this in my trunk (in a case) in very hot weather - could the arm soften and twist? I don’t understand how it happened.

0319D394-9111-43CF-852A-8BA950CE7BC8 by CFster posted Jul 11, 2018 at 6:57 PM 994D3666-5E17-4B65-9873-5FA223C19C62 by CFster posted Jul 11, 2018 at 6:57 PM I’m not sure how this happened, but it appears the arm that comes down from the top of the gimbal is bent/twisted. Can someone tell me if...

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I find the trick is to grab it as lightly as possible. When you put pressure on it with a firm grip it distorts the threads making it harder to turn. Fingertip pressure only.