Phantom_Menace66 said:
As some of you may be aware my first P2V+ fell out of the sky, camera/gimbal destroyed. Well....
I've just received the so-called 'new one' I ordered.... Took it out of the box & sat it on the kitchen bench top, put batteries in the controller and took it outside (no props fitted) to check things were working. Took the plastic gimbal lock off, lens cover off. Turned on the controller, range extender and finally the P2V+.... Or tried to... Nothing, dead as. Replaced the battery with a fully charged one, ahhh that did it. Camera did its little dance thing on the gimbal but didn't settle horizontally. It's leaning down to the L/H side. Got my laptop out, plugged it in & did a calibration of the transmitter then the same plugged into the Phantom. Camera still tilted down on L/H side. Then I notice when I moved the left stick to the left or right, the camera is turning left & right, WTF? It will not stay pointed straight ahead. I thought ok, maybe it's in FPV mode on the app... Nope. So I thought ok, I'll come back to that. Put both sticks in CSC to start the motors.... Nothing. Again I thought ok, I'll come back to that. Flipped the S1 switch a few times to activate calibration mode & the rear lights went solid yellow, ahhhh something works! Did the ballerina dance, lights still solid yellow. Did this 4 times & my blood started boiling. Turned everything off, grabbed some props & put it all in the car. Went down to the local park, huge open area nothing but grass for hundreds of metres (incidentally, the same location as the ill-fated crash of my first P2V+). Went through the whole routine again, nothing, Solid yellow lights & motors won't spin up.
I begin using words Richard Pryor himself had probably never heard before... Plugged the mongrel into the laptop, did an IMU cal & advanced IMU cal, stick calibration etc... (Also noticed unable to set lower S1 switch position to failsafe in non-NAZA mode) Nothing. Solid yellow lights & motors as dead as convent on a Friday night...
I began wondering how far I could actually throw the thing but common sense prevailed... Put it all back in the car, got home put it all back in the box & flung it in the cupboard with the first P2V+.
So now I have a cupboard with $3000.00AUD worth of junk in it....
Not a happy chap....
Ok, lets get that thing working.
#1. Take off props
#2. Power up wifi extender, transmitter (place S1 and S2 switches in full up position), phone, then Phantom.
#3 Connect app to Phantom: Do you have connection? Does it give you a warning box? Do you have satellites? I suspect that solid yellow is a compass calibration error. Fix it and she should start up.
How to calibrate: hold Phantom level and slowly spin 360 degrees until light changes. Hold Phantom at 90 degrees (front facing ground) and slowly spin 360. Light will change. If you followed this exactly, it should work. Slow down, relax and try it. Let me know where you get to. If this does not work, we will next visit the computer and look at the DJI Assistant info.
The Phantom CSC will not work (and engines will not start) if you require compass calibration. Not knowing that tells me your not really up on the operation of your Phantom, which is OK, just relax an realize its probably user error. Probably.