Wedeliver said:
after reading the thread and boy can i feel your pain i just want to say that the op seems like the perfect pilot and phantom owner. you have a great way of looking at issues and you have the talent to fix things. I was hoping to hear whät the end result was ẃith the camera and gimbal. i have had a little luck with those fragile devices and wondered were yours was at.
The camera was ripped off from the gimbal during the crash, but only insofar as the cables from Phantom came unplugged from the camera unit itself; the plastic holding pins and the rubber dampeners were destroyed, mostly. I had spare dampeners on hand but had to use zip ties until I could track down and order some more of the plastic holding pins (those arrived yesterday, as it happens). The cables were fairly simple to plug back in and one of the very first things I tested was the camera operation once I got the vehicle operational again. So far, so good. I shot almost 10 gigs of video yesterday and had fantastic results (which I hope to share today sometime). Thanks for your encouragement!