After a long stressful week I can now tell the story Ive been dreading.
Was At the lake flying my P3 filming a drunk friend trying to paddle board it was on and off like 30 times no balance in his brain at all. He had just fallen and I dropped down to 15 ft to get a close shot when his other drunk friend threw the paddle up at it and took it out of the sky. It did one flip and tried to right itself but no room. (As it turned out would not have mattered as it had a broken prop) It went under props down and came back up 5-8 second later still spinning. I jumped in and swam the 75ft or so out to it pulled it out of water it was dead in the water now pulled battery and dumped out the water. I was hot
long story short dumb a%$ friend wrote me a check and I left drone with him since he now owned it.
Well 3 days later check comes back insufficient funds. Another long story but we settle on $500.00 and he gives me the drone back. I Figured I can part it out and still come out ok or maybe up.
So I get the drone today 1 week to the day after it went swimming( fresh water thank god) I take all apart(**** body clips are a bugger)I spray it all with Corrosion-X Anti-Corrosion Aerosol, wipe it down ,give it a good blow dry.and reassemble. Slam a new battery in it and push the button.
IT ALL FIRED UP I did a IMU and gimbal cal took it outside did a compass dance. And set her free
amazing flew like a dream made 3 full battery flights and no issues.
SIDE NOTE
The battery that was in when it crashed would light up like it was 75% full but when i put it in the bird nothing . Thought for sure it was toast but left all day on the charger it would start charging then stop but all of a sudden it quit blinking. I was like well its gone **** only 3 flights on it
I pressed button and showed full ?????????
Put it in the bird it fired up ok hit the battery info and all cells look good no issues
so I bring it outside and it flew fine, flew it down to 30% recharged and made one more full flight
.WOW IM THE LUCKIEST GUY EVER
NOW iF i COULD JUST GET MY p3p BACK FROM DJI 8 weeks so far
Was At the lake flying my P3 filming a drunk friend trying to paddle board it was on and off like 30 times no balance in his brain at all. He had just fallen and I dropped down to 15 ft to get a close shot when his other drunk friend threw the paddle up at it and took it out of the sky. It did one flip and tried to right itself but no room. (As it turned out would not have mattered as it had a broken prop) It went under props down and came back up 5-8 second later still spinning. I jumped in and swam the 75ft or so out to it pulled it out of water it was dead in the water now pulled battery and dumped out the water. I was hot
long story short dumb a%$ friend wrote me a check and I left drone with him since he now owned it.Well 3 days later check comes back insufficient funds. Another long story but we settle on $500.00 and he gives me the drone back. I Figured I can part it out and still come out ok or maybe up.
So I get the drone today 1 week to the day after it went swimming( fresh water thank god) I take all apart(**** body clips are a bugger)I spray it all with Corrosion-X Anti-Corrosion Aerosol, wipe it down ,give it a good blow dry.and reassemble. Slam a new battery in it and push the button.
IT ALL FIRED UP I did a IMU and gimbal cal took it outside did a compass dance. And set her freeamazing flew like a dream made 3 full battery flights and no issues.
SIDE NOTE
The battery that was in when it crashed would light up like it was 75% full but when i put it in the bird nothing . Thought for sure it was toast but left all day on the charger it would start charging then stop but all of a sudden it quit blinking. I was like well its gone **** only 3 flights on it
I pressed button and showed full ?????????
Put it in the bird it fired up ok hit the battery info and all cells look good no issues so I bring it outside and it flew fine, flew it down to 30% recharged and made one more full flight
.WOW IM THE LUCKIEST GUY EVER
NOW iF i COULD JUST GET MY p3p BACK FROM DJI
8 weeks so far
