Hello,
So I took a shot with a broken *as is* Phantom 3 Pro on eBay about a month ago. It did not fly at first and I've been able to make a few fixes with some new parts and now it is up and running great. The gimbal was in a couple of different pieces with the ribbon cable obviously trashed. Swapped out the GPS sensor and got the bird flying which was step one. I bought a new yaw arm through F-Stop Labs on Amazon and figured I'd take a gamble on their ribbon cable - I've read a few positive experiences with this cable on this forum. Swapped out the yaw arm and installed the new ribbon cable, mounted the camera on the drone and tested. Gimbal works perfectly; as you can see from the images I still need to level the tilt.
Here's my issue - and it's my only remaining issue as I've almost got a perfectly flying P3P for around $400.
The pictures and video taken always have spots/vertical lines, especially along dark parts of the image. Vertical lines can be seen in the whiteness of the clouds also.
It's even worse with video:
The live image on my phone looks pretty clear of these artifacts, but I'm not sure if the screen just isn't big enough to see them. So I tried a different SD card to see if that was the problem, nope. Using 2 class 10 sandisk extreme micro sd - one 32gb one 64gb. Tried adjusting some settings in the app, still the same result. Formatted both in the app with no luck.
Anyone with any input??? I'm trying to think of things to do before I drop $45 on an OEM ribbon cable (which potentially isn't my problem)
So I took a shot with a broken *as is* Phantom 3 Pro on eBay about a month ago. It did not fly at first and I've been able to make a few fixes with some new parts and now it is up and running great. The gimbal was in a couple of different pieces with the ribbon cable obviously trashed. Swapped out the GPS sensor and got the bird flying which was step one. I bought a new yaw arm through F-Stop Labs on Amazon and figured I'd take a gamble on their ribbon cable - I've read a few positive experiences with this cable on this forum. Swapped out the yaw arm and installed the new ribbon cable, mounted the camera on the drone and tested. Gimbal works perfectly; as you can see from the images I still need to level the tilt.
Here's my issue - and it's my only remaining issue as I've almost got a perfectly flying P3P for around $400.
The pictures and video taken always have spots/vertical lines, especially along dark parts of the image. Vertical lines can be seen in the whiteness of the clouds also.
It's even worse with video:
The live image on my phone looks pretty clear of these artifacts, but I'm not sure if the screen just isn't big enough to see them. So I tried a different SD card to see if that was the problem, nope. Using 2 class 10 sandisk extreme micro sd - one 32gb one 64gb. Tried adjusting some settings in the app, still the same result. Formatted both in the app with no luck.
Anyone with any input??? I'm trying to think of things to do before I drop $45 on an OEM ribbon cable (which potentially isn't my problem)
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