Hi all, I am new here, so be gentle please 
So P3S is not my first drone as I have "practiced" with flying cheap drones before and loved it. I am not an expert but feel comfortable flying a drone. I finally decided to get a "real" drone and purchased a refurbished P3S. It arrived a few days ago and I did a few test flights outside of my house and of course in P-GPS mode this thing is a dream - nice and steady and easy to control. I was not brave enough to take it out too far or fly manually too much (although I did a little).
Today when I turned it on, I got a notification that a new firmware is available and I decided to upgrade. All went well and since it was raining outside.... I did something incredibly stupid which of course is my fault and lack of thinking. I decided to "just take it up and down" in the middle of my family room to test it after upgrade. I know I know, very very dumb move for several reasons. Well, my family room has about 18ft ceiling so I thought I had enough room to take it up and down and in fact, the first time it went well - I took it up 5 - 6 ft high did a few turns, rotated it, and landed it just fine. I should've just turned it off, but I decided to do it again. So I took it up again a little and did a few turns, and this is as they say **** hit the fan. The drone all of a sudden started going to one side very quickly and in my clumsy attempt to save it from plunging it into the wall I made things worse. Long story short - it hit the ceiling, hit the wall, dropped on the floor, and had some damage which I need to deal with now. The aftermath - gimball was torn off the craft and appears to have no damage at all but I do need to replace 2.4Gh antennas (part 97) since the wires were ripped off. I also need to replace the vibration absorbing board (part 83) since one piece broke off which probably saved my gimbal/camera. And one propeller has a small crack so I need to replace a propeller too. Other than that it appears to have no scratch on it anywhere and gimbal/camera look flawless - but I can't check them until I get everything re-connected again. So... a few questions:
1. The drone came with 1 year warranty but since I crashed it, I am assuming my warranty at this point has gone bye-bye?
2. Since replacing the antennas requires opening the body, which I am fine with, this will also void the warranty if I fix it myself, right?
3. I'd like to understand why the drone did not listen to my commands right before the crash - I was trying to bring it down but it went up and hit the ceiling. I get that since it was inside and compass/GPS may have been confused so maybe it tried to fly home which means it would try to raise to RTH height... but I thought that if I control it, it should not do that. It could not loose connection since I was just a few feet away. Log is here: Phantom Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com and it shows a few "Speed Error" messages at the end, but I am not exactly sure what that means so I would appreciate any insights.
Was hoping my first post would NOT be about crashing my new drone... but here I am.
Thanks.
So P3S is not my first drone as I have "practiced" with flying cheap drones before and loved it. I am not an expert but feel comfortable flying a drone. I finally decided to get a "real" drone and purchased a refurbished P3S. It arrived a few days ago and I did a few test flights outside of my house and of course in P-GPS mode this thing is a dream - nice and steady and easy to control. I was not brave enough to take it out too far or fly manually too much (although I did a little).
Today when I turned it on, I got a notification that a new firmware is available and I decided to upgrade. All went well and since it was raining outside.... I did something incredibly stupid which of course is my fault and lack of thinking. I decided to "just take it up and down" in the middle of my family room to test it after upgrade. I know I know, very very dumb move for several reasons. Well, my family room has about 18ft ceiling so I thought I had enough room to take it up and down and in fact, the first time it went well - I took it up 5 - 6 ft high did a few turns, rotated it, and landed it just fine. I should've just turned it off, but I decided to do it again. So I took it up again a little and did a few turns, and this is as they say **** hit the fan. The drone all of a sudden started going to one side very quickly and in my clumsy attempt to save it from plunging it into the wall I made things worse. Long story short - it hit the ceiling, hit the wall, dropped on the floor, and had some damage which I need to deal with now. The aftermath - gimball was torn off the craft and appears to have no damage at all but I do need to replace 2.4Gh antennas (part 97) since the wires were ripped off. I also need to replace the vibration absorbing board (part 83) since one piece broke off which probably saved my gimbal/camera. And one propeller has a small crack so I need to replace a propeller too. Other than that it appears to have no scratch on it anywhere and gimbal/camera look flawless - but I can't check them until I get everything re-connected again. So... a few questions:
1. The drone came with 1 year warranty but since I crashed it, I am assuming my warranty at this point has gone bye-bye?
2. Since replacing the antennas requires opening the body, which I am fine with, this will also void the warranty if I fix it myself, right?
3. I'd like to understand why the drone did not listen to my commands right before the crash - I was trying to bring it down but it went up and hit the ceiling. I get that since it was inside and compass/GPS may have been confused so maybe it tried to fly home which means it would try to raise to RTH height... but I thought that if I control it, it should not do that. It could not loose connection since I was just a few feet away. Log is here: Phantom Log Viewer - PhantomHelp.com and it shows a few "Speed Error" messages at the end, but I am not exactly sure what that means so I would appreciate any insights.
Was hoping my first post would NOT be about crashing my new drone... but here I am.
Thanks.
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