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First of all, hello to everyone! new to Phantom pilots but have discovered a wealth of info so keep up the good work
Now then! I bought a P2 with H4-3D gimbal in July this year, had it about two weeks or so and it flew offf never to be seen again.... saga number 1
Soooo i then took a risk of buying another DJI phantom, but this time the P3P. I though my problems were over... or so i thought.
Having acqauinted myself with it i, stupidly, decided to fly it around my garden. The inevitable happened and it hit the garage door flipping it onto its props, ie upside down.
No problem i thought new props and off we go. But no, because i now started getting compass magnetic interference errors and now unable to calibrate the compass. So having decided i knackered the compass i set about about purchasing a new one. Took the top off only to discover that the gps socket which sits on the mainboard had come away and was hanging by a single connector. (see photo)
Having caused my own problems and i thought DJI wont honor any sort of warranty claim because i damaged through my own stupidity, i set about finding an electronics engineer to repair the socket. I did, he did, but its still knackered coming up with the same error. Tried the new compass same propblem. Tried IMU calibration a million times, still wont calibrate, even though during the IMU calibration it says the compass is calibrated?!! WTF
Now that i am totaly skint i cant afford yet another replacement, how the hell do i get to fly the dam thing without a calibrated compass, it simply wont let me take off I realise course, home lock RTH etc wont work, but at least i could fly it.
Done a DJI flyway form thingy for the P2 but i am not expecting much help quite frankly based on some of the posts on your forum.
So any ideas how to fly it without a compass?
Thanks, all for reading, and the next time you pop the top off check the gps socket as i am sure it shoulndt break that easily....
Now then! I bought a P2 with H4-3D gimbal in July this year, had it about two weeks or so and it flew offf never to be seen again.... saga number 1
Soooo i then took a risk of buying another DJI phantom, but this time the P3P. I though my problems were over... or so i thought.
Having acqauinted myself with it i, stupidly, decided to fly it around my garden. The inevitable happened and it hit the garage door flipping it onto its props, ie upside down.
No problem i thought new props and off we go. But no, because i now started getting compass magnetic interference errors and now unable to calibrate the compass. So having decided i knackered the compass i set about about purchasing a new one. Took the top off only to discover that the gps socket which sits on the mainboard had come away and was hanging by a single connector. (see photo)
Having caused my own problems and i thought DJI wont honor any sort of warranty claim because i damaged through my own stupidity, i set about finding an electronics engineer to repair the socket. I did, he did, but its still knackered coming up with the same error. Tried the new compass same propblem. Tried IMU calibration a million times, still wont calibrate, even though during the IMU calibration it says the compass is calibrated?!! WTF
Now that i am totaly skint i cant afford yet another replacement, how the hell do i get to fly the dam thing without a calibrated compass, it simply wont let me take off I realise course, home lock RTH etc wont work, but at least i could fly it.
Done a DJI flyway form thingy for the P2 but i am not expecting much help quite frankly based on some of the posts on your forum.
So any ideas how to fly it without a compass?
Thanks, all for reading, and the next time you pop the top off check the gps socket as i am sure it shoulndt break that easily....
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