Hi everyone I am hoping that someone can point us in the right direction.
My eldest son is disabled but loves RC he started with cars etc but recently developed an interest in drones. To start with we got him cheap drones thinking if he crashed them then no major issue, he loved them they seemed to help calm him down and worked wonders, so slowly we upgraded and upgraded and recently bought him a brand new phantom 3 standard he flew it a couple of times with no issues at all other than occasionally the camera feed wouldn't connect and drone would lose signal don't know if this is to do with the area or whatever. Anyway a couple of days ago he was flying but it just kept disconnecting from the app so was just flying it close with the control not using the phone app, there was a beeping noise and the drone flew straight up in the air and then turned off crashing from about 10-15 foot. The camera detached breaking the ribbon and yaw arm and a small black piece that looks like the top of a chip came out of the grey gimbal housing plate the bit that attached the gimbal to the bird, other than that damage seems cosmetic.
Bird turns on however control is showing not connected to bird I've tried to pair them again but it just won't connect. I've looked on eBay and can see replacement ribbons and yaw arms cheap enough, and from what I have read in reviews the likely hood is if I return it to DJI the repair cost will be more than I want to spend. So I am left with the option of buying a new drone or self repair, I am reasonably competent at mechanical repairs and can easily replace damaged components on TVs so feel I can replace the yaw arm and camera ribbon easily enough but it's the little black component out of the gimbal plate I'm concerned about, could this be the reason bird won't connect to controller??? Also when I open DJI go app obviously there is no camera feed, I get an error message saying weak signal and no telemetry, nothing showing on battery status, when I try to calibrate compass etc nothing????
Please help us???
My eldest son is disabled but loves RC he started with cars etc but recently developed an interest in drones. To start with we got him cheap drones thinking if he crashed them then no major issue, he loved them they seemed to help calm him down and worked wonders, so slowly we upgraded and upgraded and recently bought him a brand new phantom 3 standard he flew it a couple of times with no issues at all other than occasionally the camera feed wouldn't connect and drone would lose signal don't know if this is to do with the area or whatever. Anyway a couple of days ago he was flying but it just kept disconnecting from the app so was just flying it close with the control not using the phone app, there was a beeping noise and the drone flew straight up in the air and then turned off crashing from about 10-15 foot. The camera detached breaking the ribbon and yaw arm and a small black piece that looks like the top of a chip came out of the grey gimbal housing plate the bit that attached the gimbal to the bird, other than that damage seems cosmetic.
Bird turns on however control is showing not connected to bird I've tried to pair them again but it just won't connect. I've looked on eBay and can see replacement ribbons and yaw arms cheap enough, and from what I have read in reviews the likely hood is if I return it to DJI the repair cost will be more than I want to spend. So I am left with the option of buying a new drone or self repair, I am reasonably competent at mechanical repairs and can easily replace damaged components on TVs so feel I can replace the yaw arm and camera ribbon easily enough but it's the little black component out of the gimbal plate I'm concerned about, could this be the reason bird won't connect to controller??? Also when I open DJI go app obviously there is no camera feed, I get an error message saying weak signal and no telemetry, nothing showing on battery status, when I try to calibrate compass etc nothing????
Please help us???
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