The yellow light

[rodbuilder]

I have flown my Phantom 2 Vision + maybe 20-30 minutes total and, after having the battery com out at 6 feet altitude I JUST got it back from DJI where it was repaired...............after almost THREE months of waiting.

Today, after flying it maybe 5 minutes and traveling a total of maybe 200 feet, it appeared to me like it was drifting quite a bit in the light wind, so I took it in the house and re-calibrated the controller and quad. I did so several times, only to keep seeing a steady/solid yellow light on the controller!!!

Don't ask if I calibrated it and the controller. I did!!
Don't ask if I re-set the drone at the red light on it's belly. I did........and it went out when I turned on the controller too!!!
Don't ask if I charged all the batteries. I did.

But you CAN ask me if I have driven over it with my truck, but I haven't because I have INCREDIBLE restraint while I wait for the miracle that makes a Phantom quad copter work more than 30 minutes .............. concurrently.

So after flying my cool drone for less than 35 minutes I'm here to ask the King Drone: Controller has a solid/steady yellow light. What's wrong with this thing?

 

[Buckaye]

Maybe try re-pairing the controller and then re-calibrate everything? I'm sure you know that the yellow light means something is wrong with the stick calibration... so you've done the right thing trying to re-calibrate. Sometimes re-pairing clears up some gremlins.

 

[rodbuilder]

Maybe try re-pairing the controller and then re-calibrate everything? I'm sure you know that the yellow light means something is wrong with the stick calibration... so you've done the right thing trying to re-calibrate. Sometimes re-pairing clears up some gremlins.

Already did it. THREE times!!!

 

[Fplvert]

Is the yellow light on your RE 700 extender or the transmitter?

Is everything charged?

 

[rodbuilder]

Is the yellow light on your RE 700 extender or the transmitter?

Is everything charged?

It's on the radio. And NOTHING gets it off. Not even a trip to my local dealer. But they tried their controller and it fired my Phantom right up.

What bugs the crap out of me is that it worked when i got it back from DJI, but I re-calibrated it because it had a drift to it and that's when all hell broke out.

I'm looking for a cheap controller with the gimble wheel, or a whole Vision + so I can finally cure this problem. But this problem is just crazy.