camera flips down on its own

xrider · Jan 24, 2019

hello there..

i was having a gimbal dance mid flight and on the ground so ive tried cleanning the connections.. didnt help.. tried to calibrate the gimbal... nope.. so ive changed the flex cable.. it worked fine till the camera started to flip down on its own midflight and on the ground.. did calibration again.. nope.. so ive checked the calibration screw in the roll arm.. it was ok.. then ive checked the hex screw up the roll arm.. it was ok as well.. so.. what am i doing wrong here?? what do i miss?? any help would be really apriciated

thanks in advance
xrider

WV. Rootman · Jan 24, 2019

Possibly, mounted the camera on wrong or it may have got mounted on the wrong side of the stop. If there is no stop, it may have been broken off.

Rick218 · Jan 25, 2019

Is it possible you are triggering the switch on the back of the transmitter that is changing the camera position? I know I have done that!

Offroader · Jan 25, 2019

Rick218 said:
Is it possible you are triggering the switch on the back of the transmitter that is changing the camera position? I know I have done that!

That was my first thought too. I hit the C1 all the time which flips the map view. At least it doesn't screw up my video.

xrider · Feb 2, 2019

nope.. im not hitting c1 and i didnt put it in wrong direction as mentioned above.. so ive disassembled it to have a closer look.. it seems that there is a lot of lube in pitch and roll axes.. seems that its hard for the motors to keep the camera steady with so much lube on them.. do they have to be like that??

WV. Rootman · Feb 2, 2019

xrider said:
nope.. im not hitting c1 and i didnt put it in wrong direction as mentioned above.. so ive disassembled it to have a closer look.. it seems that there is a lot of lube in pitch and roll axes.. seems that its hard for the motors to keep the camera steady with so much lube on them.. do they have to be like that??

On my P3 standard there is no lube to be seen. Something doesn't sound right.

xrider · Feb 10, 2019

hello.. just a question; does anyone have technical knowledge?? need help.. gimbal is rolling and pitching pretty bad especially when drone moving sideways.. tried:
.cleanning the contacts
.recalibrate gimbal and imu
.change pins, rubbers and props
none of the above helped..
is that happening because of cold weather or do i have to check something else??
thanks in advance