Into the River Repair Advice

[3Rivers]

Crashed my Vision Plus into the river, totally user error. I am a *******.

Fished it out, dried it out per all of the conventional wisdom. Recovered the SD card (awesome video by the way)

The good news:

Camera, gimbal, FPV, GPS are all functioning normally. Captures clear photo and video. Good FPV signal to phone, shows good telemetry.

The bad news:

No signal from remote to Phantom. Motors don't fire up. Getting "Configuration Error" message.

I imagine main controller on the board is toast. Before I drop 229 on controller, can anyone help me diagnose if this is the real problem.

Thanks

 

[Jeffin916]

I did the same exact thing. Granted mine did not fully submerged under the water and it was only for about 4 seconds. Here is what I did. I took an air compressor and I blew out any excess water out of the drone. I then opened up the top and I sumerge the whole drone in rice for 24 hours. By then took a blow dryer just tried to evaporate any type of water that might exist. After that, I had two re connect thephantom phone app with the wifi because it wasn't talking to it anymore. After I did not, it all work again. I wish you the best of luck and hope that you get your bird back to life

 

[Mal_PV2_Ireland]

Some people would advise t immediately remove the battery after recovery, wash down with lots of distilled water, dry as much as possible with an air compressor then get it into rice for a few days. After that you then need to start diagnosing what parts of your bird have failed which is the hard part and then replace as necessary. Sorry I cant offer any more detailed advice on the fixing part.

 

[DronePilot]

Look for deionized water rather than distilled water to flush. Ions in water are what destroys electronics such chlorine or salt.

 

[Mal_PV2_Ireland]

Look for deionized water rather than distilled water to flush. Ions in water are what destroys electronics such chlorine or salt.

+1 silly me, I meant deionized water. Been a long day :roll:

 

[Mako79]

New Toothbrush and methylated spirits. Then leave to dry. The Toothbrush removes much more.

 

[EMCSQUAR]

The bad news:

No signal from remote to Phantom. Motors don't fire up. Getting "Configuration Error" message.

I imagine main controller on the board is toast. Before I drop 229 on controller, can anyone help me diagnose if this is the real problem.

Thanks

Try rebinding Tx to your Phantom, then put on assistant -> tools -> restore default settings -> do ALL calibrations Advanced IMU, stick, battery and compass cal.

 

[3Rivers]

Thanks for all the advice. Tried all these steps, no luck so far getting her airborne...

When I turn on the Tx, the red binding light on the Phantom turns off, which tells me it is getting a signal. I may just start replacing the guts and see what happens.

 

[WyattEarp]

Hey how about a link to the video. You did say it was awesome.

 

[yali]

Can you share the video ?

 

[rrmccabe]

Have you tried this with camera unhooked? My 2+ has camera issues and the motors will not spool up with the camera attached. It's a factory problem and they are replacing it but something was inhibiting start. Camera removed and it flies fine.