Gimbal Random shut down

[rccrazy30]

Ok twice now in the middle of a flight the gimbal just decides to shut down for absolutely no reason. Both flights when it failed were in no wind and going fairly slow. The first time this happened I brought it home restarted took off again and everything was fine even put it in sport to get heavy on the controls never failed.... then today I take it up to run a battery down just doing an orbit around my house it fails again.


Oh and just to state the obvious no gimble lock was left on.

 

[Erised]

The first time my P4 did that it was windy and I was pushing it so I though I overloaded the motors, the second time there was no wind and I was moving very very slow and the gimbal just went limp. My first reaction looking at my tablet was that I had lost power and was on my way down to the scene of the crash! once I saw my altitude was the same I limped back home just happy I didn't have a power loss. Powered off and on and all was good for the other 2 batteries.

 

[rccrazy30]

The first time my P4 did that it was windy and I was pushing it so I though I overloaded the motors, the second time there was no wind and I was moving very very slow and the gimbal just went limp. My first reaction looking at my tablet was that I had lost power and was on my way down to the scene of the crash! once I saw my altitude was the same I limped back home just happy I didn't have a power loss. Powered off and on and all was good for the other 2 batteries.

Sounds identical to what happened to me. Today I went out and did another Flight and calibrated the compass. Did a full battery flight and no failure hopefully tomorrow on my job I won't have any issues.

 

[RémyHeli]

I presume you had also following conditions (I may repeat some you already mention);

- no agressive turn, specially to left side
- no excessive craft speed and not flying in S mode
- battery in good conditions, not raising low voltage
- good weather and no special wind/turbulances
- no extra filter or accessory installed that would increase camera weight/imbalance
- no gimbal motor overload warning message showed up on GO4 app
- no error logged or error status in GO4 app
- restart craft resolves the issue

Would relate to unexplained random gimbal shutdown not catched by GO4 app so we're blind to explain what is the root cause.