Hey friends,
I've had my P4P for about a month, and been loving it. I've done multiple test flights and while still certainly inexperienced, I would consider myself a fairly cautious pilot.
That is until this evening when I trusted the CA far more than I should and I hit the wall of a tennis court, about 12 feet or so in the air and slid down it to ground. Somehow, the battery was ejected during my RUD (rapid unplanned descent), so the bird powered down just as it his the court below. Amazingly, the housing itself has not a scratch, and the battery was not punctured or damaged in any visible way. It lights as expected. I did break a prop, but that's obviously an easy replacement.
After further inspection, I have two apparent issues, and I'm interested in your thoughts on the feasibility of me doing these repairs myself.
1. Upon boot up, the drone connects to my controller as usual, I have visual, the gimbal is snapping into place, and I can even run a gimbal calibration with absolutely no problems. If I pick up the drone and move it, the gimbal rotates and appears to be functioning with no issues. However, DJI GO says it has no visual connection to the Drone (despite me seeing just fine in the app) reports that the "Phantom Gimbal and Main Controller are Disconnected". To me, this sounds like I may have popped a cable out of place and that fixing this issue might be as simple as finding that connection and plugging her back in. Any thoughts on this error, and other, larger, complications I may need to consider?
2. Secondly, after inspection of my motors, one of them has a noticeable "grind" feel when I try to turn it. Sort of like metal scraping metal when you first try to spin it, though once it gets moving it feels okay. At the least, I think I may have gotten some gravel from the court into the motor, and at the worst I'm afraid that I may have broken something physical within the motor.
I know the motors themselves are a fairly cheap part to buy replacement for, do any of you have experience doing a swap, and how challenging is it?
I plan to begin some preliminary dissasembly this evening to see if I can resolve the gimbal camera problem, but I am interested in your collective wisdom on whether these two issues are reasonably fixable, or if I'm better off sending it in and suffering through the cost+time lost. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
I've had my P4P for about a month, and been loving it. I've done multiple test flights and while still certainly inexperienced, I would consider myself a fairly cautious pilot.
That is until this evening when I trusted the CA far more than I should and I hit the wall of a tennis court, about 12 feet or so in the air and slid down it to ground. Somehow, the battery was ejected during my RUD (rapid unplanned descent), so the bird powered down just as it his the court below. Amazingly, the housing itself has not a scratch, and the battery was not punctured or damaged in any visible way. It lights as expected. I did break a prop, but that's obviously an easy replacement.
After further inspection, I have two apparent issues, and I'm interested in your thoughts on the feasibility of me doing these repairs myself.
1. Upon boot up, the drone connects to my controller as usual, I have visual, the gimbal is snapping into place, and I can even run a gimbal calibration with absolutely no problems. If I pick up the drone and move it, the gimbal rotates and appears to be functioning with no issues. However, DJI GO says it has no visual connection to the Drone (despite me seeing just fine in the app) reports that the "Phantom Gimbal and Main Controller are Disconnected". To me, this sounds like I may have popped a cable out of place and that fixing this issue might be as simple as finding that connection and plugging her back in. Any thoughts on this error, and other, larger, complications I may need to consider?
2. Secondly, after inspection of my motors, one of them has a noticeable "grind" feel when I try to turn it. Sort of like metal scraping metal when you first try to spin it, though once it gets moving it feels okay. At the least, I think I may have gotten some gravel from the court into the motor, and at the worst I'm afraid that I may have broken something physical within the motor.
I know the motors themselves are a fairly cheap part to buy replacement for, do any of you have experience doing a swap, and how challenging is it?
I plan to begin some preliminary dissasembly this evening to see if I can resolve the gimbal camera problem, but I am interested in your collective wisdom on whether these two issues are reasonably fixable, or if I'm better off sending it in and suffering through the cost+time lost. Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
