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Ok, my very first vision plus that I bought 6 months ago due to me not calibrating the compass properly and continuing to do so eventually did a backflip and landed on its landing gear HARD and bounced back up in the air and continued flying. I immediately brought it to where I was to inspect the damage only to find none to the camera or Phantom. At the time not knowing any better and taking it home and performing an IMU calibration immediately I took to the skys for some more fun. I got about 30 feet away 40 feet off the ground and noticed it was flying at an odd angle so I began to turn it around to head back to where I was and the rear left prop let loose causing the Phantom to tumble to the ground bending an arm and breaking the camera ribbon. Was quoted $1300 to have it fixed so I packed it up and put it in the closet and bought a brand new one the next week cause it was only $200 more figuring I would eventually fix it at a later date.
I bought a new shell last week and pulled the old Phantom from the closet minus the camera and swapped the internal electronics to the new shell, updated to V3.08, did an advanced calibration twice, all the compass numbers were in the correct parameters went to the local soccer field got sats right away, marked a home point, did a successful compass calibration, everything looked good and took to the air. it hovered totally solid keeping it's spot (there was no wind anyway) without any issues, I tested the controls forward, backwards, Left right, no issues at all responded great to my controls. Did a figure 8 in GPS about 10 feet from the ground, quad flew really nice. Switched to ATTI and went to do another figure 8 giving er some pretty good power on the throttle and when it did the first half of the figure 8 coming out of it the same propeller as before went flying off leaving the Phantom to tumble to the ground once again.
Luckly there was not any damage to the new shell and all the props were damage free as well as my head due to my quick cat like reflexes lol as it cartwheeled just missing me.
now, what do you think caused this, obviously the motor that the propeller spun off of stopped for enough time for the momentum of the propeller to allow it to spin off, but all the motors spin freely like they were brand new, no noise or FOD in them. Could the ESC been damaged from the original crash? all the lights blink in order and in time with each other.
Should I replace that ESC and motor or should I replace all 4 motors and ESC's? Or do you think it's something else?
Your help is much appreciated.
Jason
I bought a new shell last week and pulled the old Phantom from the closet minus the camera and swapped the internal electronics to the new shell, updated to V3.08, did an advanced calibration twice, all the compass numbers were in the correct parameters went to the local soccer field got sats right away, marked a home point, did a successful compass calibration, everything looked good and took to the air. it hovered totally solid keeping it's spot (there was no wind anyway) without any issues, I tested the controls forward, backwards, Left right, no issues at all responded great to my controls. Did a figure 8 in GPS about 10 feet from the ground, quad flew really nice. Switched to ATTI and went to do another figure 8 giving er some pretty good power on the throttle and when it did the first half of the figure 8 coming out of it the same propeller as before went flying off leaving the Phantom to tumble to the ground once again.
Luckly there was not any damage to the new shell and all the props were damage free as well as my head due to my quick cat like reflexes lol as it cartwheeled just missing me.
now, what do you think caused this, obviously the motor that the propeller spun off of stopped for enough time for the momentum of the propeller to allow it to spin off, but all the motors spin freely like they were brand new, no noise or FOD in them. Could the ESC been damaged from the original crash? all the lights blink in order and in time with each other.
Should I replace that ESC and motor or should I replace all 4 motors and ESC's? Or do you think it's something else?
Your help is much appreciated.
Jason