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I have about 50 flights with this bird. I picked it up at the beginning of May and loved it. However, I ran into a little bit of a problem.
To be fair, I crashed a few weeks ago, so I just want to point this out. I clipped a branch from about 10 feet in the air and it landed on the pavement below. The shell was cracked on one of the arms.
I managed to repair the shell, but the gimbal was stuck at a 5 degree tilt.
I saw that the firmware was out of date, so I plugged it in and started the update. It finished and told me to power cycle, which I did. Then it happened. The gimbal started spinning violently out of control. I even recorded it, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i213LK2u4E
So my advice for those reading this is perhaps avoid the vision 2 plus. I don't really want to spend $800 on a new camera assembly when I can just buy a Phantom Vision 2 for about that or less.
My question to anyone on here is, can I replace the broken gimbal with that of the Phantom 2 Vision, with the GoPro camera and gimbal?
Thus far, everything else has seemed to have worked out so well. I even got a couple of flights with the new software today allowing for the base control. I loved it!
To be fair, I crashed a few weeks ago, so I just want to point this out. I clipped a branch from about 10 feet in the air and it landed on the pavement below. The shell was cracked on one of the arms.
I managed to repair the shell, but the gimbal was stuck at a 5 degree tilt.
I saw that the firmware was out of date, so I plugged it in and started the update. It finished and told me to power cycle, which I did. Then it happened. The gimbal started spinning violently out of control. I even recorded it, which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i213LK2u4E
So my advice for those reading this is perhaps avoid the vision 2 plus. I don't really want to spend $800 on a new camera assembly when I can just buy a Phantom Vision 2 for about that or less.
My question to anyone on here is, can I replace the broken gimbal with that of the Phantom 2 Vision, with the GoPro camera and gimbal?
Thus far, everything else has seemed to have worked out so well. I even got a couple of flights with the new software today allowing for the base control. I loved it!