Hello my name is Bruce I'm new to the board. I'm located in Clearwater FL.
I have a Phantom 2 that was given to me by a friend. (He stepped up to a Mavic). My Friend was uncomfortable flying it so It had been sitting for some time. I got it up and flying OK. Two of the three batteries were very good (15 minutes flight time) . The P2 has a H3-3D Gimbal on it, mini iOSD, and Fatshark FPV and Attitude FPV goggles.
Last week I started it up took off and realized I didn't hit the record button on the GoPro. I Broought it into a hover about 6' off the ground when it suddenly shut down, rolled to the left and crashed. I did a CSC after it hit the ground. I looked it over and everything looked OK. Turned the battery on and off It started up fine and flew around great. No problems.
Yesterday I took it out for another flight. Took of fine, let it hover around a bit. Moved it to a new spot. hovered a bit. Tried setting a new home position (first time trying it) that worked OK. I put on my FPV goggles and climbed straight up to about 200'. Again let it hover a moment while adjusting the FPV goggles. I was kinda looking around at the FPV OSD display when I heard the motors stop, I saw the drone start to roll to the left and begin to tumble. I took off the goggles to see where it was and what it was going to crash into, (hopefully not hit something or someone) when I saw it falling like a rock and then crash onto the street. Luckily it didn't hit anything.
The upper and lower cases are busted as is one landing gear and the battery was badly damaged but still on. The gimbal looks OK but I'm not 100% sure.
My question is has anyone else had this problem? Is it a known problem? I strongly doubt it is a battery shutting down due to overload or something since the FPV and iOSD were still transmitting. Unfortunately I didn't think to try restarting the motors since I was more worried about it crashing into someones house or car.
I can repair the crash damage to the case easily enough, but unless I can find a cause, I'm not going to bother.
BTW this P2 did the same thing to my friend that gave it to me a few years ago. He sent it back to DJI and they rebuilt it and sent it back to him.
I'll post pics later.
Thank you
I have a Phantom 2 that was given to me by a friend. (He stepped up to a Mavic). My Friend was uncomfortable flying it so It had been sitting for some time. I got it up and flying OK. Two of the three batteries were very good (15 minutes flight time) . The P2 has a H3-3D Gimbal on it, mini iOSD, and Fatshark FPV and Attitude FPV goggles.
Last week I started it up took off and realized I didn't hit the record button on the GoPro. I Broought it into a hover about 6' off the ground when it suddenly shut down, rolled to the left and crashed. I did a CSC after it hit the ground. I looked it over and everything looked OK. Turned the battery on and off It started up fine and flew around great. No problems.
Yesterday I took it out for another flight. Took of fine, let it hover around a bit. Moved it to a new spot. hovered a bit. Tried setting a new home position (first time trying it) that worked OK. I put on my FPV goggles and climbed straight up to about 200'. Again let it hover a moment while adjusting the FPV goggles. I was kinda looking around at the FPV OSD display when I heard the motors stop, I saw the drone start to roll to the left and begin to tumble. I took off the goggles to see where it was and what it was going to crash into, (hopefully not hit something or someone) when I saw it falling like a rock and then crash onto the street. Luckily it didn't hit anything.
The upper and lower cases are busted as is one landing gear and the battery was badly damaged but still on. The gimbal looks OK but I'm not 100% sure.
My question is has anyone else had this problem? Is it a known problem? I strongly doubt it is a battery shutting down due to overload or something since the FPV and iOSD were still transmitting. Unfortunately I didn't think to try restarting the motors since I was more worried about it crashing into someones house or car.
I can repair the crash damage to the case easily enough, but unless I can find a cause, I'm not going to bother.
BTW this P2 did the same thing to my friend that gave it to me a few years ago. He sent it back to DJI and they rebuilt it and sent it back to him.
I'll post pics later.
Thank you