Recent content by dchild

Guys - thanks for all the help here. I managed to fix the gimbal. Took it out for a test flight and blew the ESC! I used the same battery that I used from the crash. The battery never got wet and seemed to be working fine. I actually used it to test the drone with the propellers off. All seemed...

Guys - Hoping someone is still looking at this thread. I replaced the ribbon cable and now the camera and gimbal work. Took me a while. However, the gimbal now points off center to the left by about 10 degrees. I checked the screw on the yaw shaft for correct alignment with the flat side of the...

I noticed the ribbon cable looks a little screwy after the crash. Couldn't tell if its from the crash or from me disassembling. Anyway, I'm replacing it tomorrow. Its only $20 so sure beats buying a new gimbal assembly.

OK got gimbal working after disassembling. Now it does its little dance properly when you turn it on and all looks good with that. However, camera is still not displaying an image. I checked the ribbon cables and they all look in tact. Anything else I can try?

OK took a look at drone today. Everything seems to power up ok except the gimbal and camera. There is no image on the camera and the gimbal will keep spinning around occasionally. It finally did set itself. I took the gimbal and camera apart and made sure there is no moisture and its pretty dry...

That does sound like a good idea.

Quite right. Stupid panicked response on my part!

Hi - I am new here and just crashed my phantom 3 standard into a creek after hitting some telephone wires. If you want to see my stupid crash it's here (only cell phone downlink video available since I didn't have the presence of mind to stop the recording to save on drone camera) - When it...