Re: - Crash into a lake... UPDATE: Found it!... UPDATE: Vide
pilsburypie said:
A heroic effort to get it back. You deserve all the luck in the world for it to start working again. I know you have probably already began drying out, but I would have given it a **** good flush with filtered water then pack in rice in a warm dry place for a week. Good luck
exactly what I did, was thinking keep it in the rice for 2 days... but a week it is I guess. And I have it in the garage where it is cold, so I guess I'll put it inside.
I guess the ESC wire could have shorted when it hit the wire, I was thinking it shorted in flight causing the crash, not sure how to tell what exactly happened. I do not think that this can be replicated on purpose using remote control inputs. Doing CSC could do it, but I hear motors on and turning during the tumble and upon hitting water, and Im 100% sure I did not CSC. At 29 secs in the video I thought I heard noice from the phantom's motors, but now I think it is noice from a ski boat that was nearby and had left the area. I am ofcourse biased, but It seems that the red wire at ESC solder point failed, either from vibrations, ESC overload and overheat and that was the weakest point, or simply wire failure.
I am going to attempt to file a RMA with DJI to get the phantom fixed / replaced under warranty. It is going to be very hard because:
1. DJI is notorious for hard to deal with regarding crashes.
2. They could say phantom is modified because I added fpv gear, I probably opened the phantom 20 times since I had it.
3. I stupidly put locktite on the shell screws a few months ago and the locktite corroded the shell plastic, so I bought a new replacement shell and did a complete electronics transplant into the new shell (Flew it maybe 60 times with the new shell.) (but why would they sell a replacement shell if it voids warranty?)
4. The new DJI shell does not have any serial or model numbers, those are on the original shell.
5. DJI will say it was due to pilot error.
6. Once found, I rinsed it with tap water and placed it in rice. DJI could say that this alone voids warranty.
Any tips on succesfully dealing with DJI and getting this thing warrantied?