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<blockquote data-quote="Billie Nelson" data-source="post: 1505542" data-attributes="member: 124386"><p>British readers will be familiar with the dreaded "Brewers' Droop", which refers to the performance degrading effect of excessive alcohol consumption, on the ability of a man's bedroom-tackle to rise to the occasion, as it were.</p><p></p><p>Minutes ago, at the tail-end of a nice long 6-mile, 22-minute autonomous Litchi mission, my Phantom 3S drone's camera gimbal "drooped" down to a 90-degree <em>angle-of-dangle</em>, whereby the camera was pointing vertically downward on arrival at the landing pad. I replayed the video footage and noted that the camera rotated fully downward only at the very <em><strong>tail end</strong></em> of the flight, but did so without having been commanded by my rotating the tilt wheel on the controller.</p><p></p><p>Never having seen the camera gimbal tilt down uncommanded, I landed the craft, and then tilted the camera back to its normal near-level position using the thumb-wheel, only for the camera to again slowly lower to the vertical down position entirely on its own. I tilted the camera back up twice more in succession, but each time the camera gimbal tilted back down to the vertical position facing down. I then got to wondering if the large number of miles covered by this drone, means there might be some service routine required for the camera gimbal, though I have seen no mention of such a procedure anywhere thus far. I have babied this drone, never once crashed it. and always taken great care to execute feather-light landings after each mission. </p><p></p><p>This drone has been a real workhorse, and I was looking forward to racking up the first one thousand cumulative miles, all flown as fully autonomous missions well <strong>beyond signal range, </strong>because such beyond-visual RC flying is permissible in my neck of the woods. My attached flight log shows a cumulative total of 47 hours, 40 minutes of flight time. Multiplying that flight time summation by the cruise speed of 17.9 mph that Litchi assigns for autonomous missions, works out to 853 miles, which is tantalizingly close to the 1,000 trouble-free miles I'd been hoping to fly with this lowly underdog of a drone. <em>Note that Air Data's cumulative mileage flown is based on miles logged <strong>within signal range</strong>, which is why the TRUE total mileage can only be determined by multiplying the total hours flown, by the cruise speed. </em></p><p></p><p>Anyway, returning to this mysterious uncommanded camera gimbal droop behavior, I would be grateful if any other Phantom3S owners out there might be able to offer some insights into the possible cause of the drone's camera gimbal droop, and the fix that might be required to restore normalcy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Billie Nelson, post: 1505542, member: 124386"] British readers will be familiar with the dreaded "Brewers' Droop", which refers to the performance degrading effect of excessive alcohol consumption, on the ability of a man's bedroom-tackle to rise to the occasion, as it were. Minutes ago, at the tail-end of a nice long 6-mile, 22-minute autonomous Litchi mission, my Phantom 3S drone's camera gimbal "drooped" down to a 90-degree [I]angle-of-dangle[/I], whereby the camera was pointing vertically downward on arrival at the landing pad. I replayed the video footage and noted that the camera rotated fully downward only at the very [I][B]tail end[/B][/I] of the flight, but did so without having been commanded by my rotating the tilt wheel on the controller. Never having seen the camera gimbal tilt down uncommanded, I landed the craft, and then tilted the camera back to its normal near-level position using the thumb-wheel, only for the camera to again slowly lower to the vertical down position entirely on its own. I tilted the camera back up twice more in succession, but each time the camera gimbal tilted back down to the vertical position facing down. I then got to wondering if the large number of miles covered by this drone, means there might be some service routine required for the camera gimbal, though I have seen no mention of such a procedure anywhere thus far. I have babied this drone, never once crashed it. and always taken great care to execute feather-light landings after each mission. This drone has been a real workhorse, and I was looking forward to racking up the first one thousand cumulative miles, all flown as fully autonomous missions well [B]beyond signal range, [/B]because such beyond-visual RC flying is permissible in my neck of the woods. My attached flight log shows a cumulative total of 47 hours, 40 minutes of flight time. Multiplying that flight time summation by the cruise speed of 17.9 mph that Litchi assigns for autonomous missions, works out to 853 miles, which is tantalizingly close to the 1,000 trouble-free miles I'd been hoping to fly with this lowly underdog of a drone. [I]Note that Air Data's cumulative mileage flown is based on miles logged [B]within signal range[/B], which is why the TRUE total mileage can only be determined by multiplying the total hours flown, by the cruise speed. [/I] Anyway, returning to this mysterious uncommanded camera gimbal droop behavior, I would be grateful if any other Phantom3S owners out there might be able to offer some insights into the possible cause of the drone's camera gimbal droop, and the fix that might be required to restore normalcy. [/QUOTE]
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