Recent content by BenjiHoggi

NW_Quad - Thank you! You summed up my thoughts perfectly actually. I'm enjoying having the use of my Quad again, even though the weather is less than great where I live. And, what you said makes sense. I don't have a replacement part and i'm in no hurry to do anything with this board. I can...

Yeah, that's a fair plan. I wasn't expecting to get much from it in terms of resale value, so I'll keep it around. If anybody needs photos, part numbers, parts, measurements etc. from one of these types of boards, please let me know. I'll be happy to provide! It's a P01103.06 Model if anyone...

I googled '0603' capacitor. I'm no expert, but it would make sense to me from my experience working with those little things that they would be capacitors. From your explanation, you may be right but I still don't know why everyone else I've seen calls it a capacitor and why it looks like one...

Quick Update just for the sake of 'resolving' my original issue and answering my questions. I've bought a crashed P3S for $80 on eBay with 60 day returns. The guy who was selling it also apparently test flew it. Great deal if you think about it - a lightly damaged, tested quad with no...

Thank you for your suggestion. I am currently planning to repair the drone myself because it's my cheapest option, but I did take a good look at their services and pricing and it looks very reasonable. So currently, I think I've given up on any chance of fixing my current board. I'll hold...

One more general question I have is this. Does anyone think that the board shorting could have caused damage to any other components like the camera or other sensors, given the location of the blown part? If so, I'd probably just sell the thing for scrap and move on with my life. I'd be in...

You're probably right. Just thought I would ask. And don't worry, any suggestions or feedback at all is appreciated. It seems like i'm probably at the end of the line for this board. I suppose I'll put the project off until a later time when I have the money to fix things.

I had another random thought. Since it seems like the LED boards are also connected to the ESCs for power, could it remotely be a possibility that I shorted one of the LED boards or something like that when I was hot gluing them back in place? Benji

I don't completely understand what you mean about bootstrapping. Are you saying that the ceramics provide protection for the ESC in some form? And I would assume that something else failed, possible an mosfet, but is there any way for me to know? I know where the mosfets are and what they...

That would make sense to me, thanks for clarifying. I think in terms of identifying the capacitor's specifications, It's not sensible for me to spend money on such a device when I have no guarantee that replacing the capacitor will even fix the board. If someone had a donor board and could...

I think you're right about the similar circuit, I saw someone else referencing that in another forum post as well, and It makes sense when I look at my board. I think it's a small cluster of components that have been reused throughout the board, which include that capacitor. I had to scrape...

WV. Rootman, Thanks so much for the response and encouragement. If nothing else, the awesome people on this site will cheer me up. I've done some scouring of the web, and I've found some more information on the specific part. It seems to be an 0603 size ceramic SMD capacitor. I tried to...

Hello tomaszPS3, Sorry to hijack this fairly old thread. I had the 0603 brown ceramic capacitor spark and blow out on the M4 corner of my P3S motherboard. I'm curious if you were able to identify it and properly fix this board. Any details at all that you can provide me will be very helpful...

Hello all, I'm asking for some help here because I'm losing my mind with frustration at what has happened to my drone. Let me explain. I'm a Phantom 3 Standard owner. I'm also a full time student, so this was a fairly large purchase and something I put a lot of time and research into. I...