Hi Folks
First post after reading through the site, tearing my hair out and stripping the gimbal for 14 hours. Long story short I am an idiot and clipped a tree branch and it tumbled like a stone about 30 feet at 9.8m per second into the hard grassy ground.
So I got it home and started to take a good look at it, very minor damage as follows:
1. Small crack in the lower shell at the base of a leg - most likely saved by the gimbal protector.
2. The camera was twisted backwards, not completely 180 degrees but not far off, the small retaining part on the pitch motor arm is not broken.
3. I am not sure if when you look at the gimbal from the side if the pitch motor arm should be slightly angle upwards or not ( it is )
4. The cables do not appear damaged at all, neither the ribbon cable or the other 2 antenna cables - I have released and re-attached them after refitting the gimbal.
Other hair tearing Issues!
The RC control red light will now not turn green, I have connected the controller by scrolling the the gimbal dial down and flicking S2 - the AC light goes green.
UPDATE THIS MORNING: - The AC light will not even go green now, since trying and failing to reinstall firmware, the link button does not seem to do anything now - not even light up.
I could start, stop and rev the motors but no video signal on the GO app, no battery strength and no communication with the AC in the app whatsoever. ( not now since firmware not working ) just constant Di Di, Di Di, Di Di from gimbal.
I have reset the WIFI to standard ( it was anyway ) and still no Green light on RC or Image in the GO app.
Once again trying to install latest firmware ( have tried older many times, all failed )
I don't get it - going back to the basics, the controller which was working perfectly with the drone until I crashed it will not connect with the Wifi on the drone, it did ( now doesn't ) connect to the drone to allow starting the motors ( I reckon I messed up the firmware )
Since the crash the red light on the RC has always stayed constant red, never green.
( I'm not counting when toggling the s2 switch etc )
Could all this be solved by replacing the ribbon cable? ( it doesn't look damaged )
Does the ribbon cable control the Wifi for video?
Update this morning, cannot update firmware at all.
Drone will not read firmware off the card ( freshly formatted each time ), also tried with pressing link button etc when starting.
I'm flummoxed - any help appreciated please, not much hair left now.
First post after reading through the site, tearing my hair out and stripping the gimbal for 14 hours. Long story short I am an idiot and clipped a tree branch and it tumbled like a stone about 30 feet at 9.8m per second into the hard grassy ground.
So I got it home and started to take a good look at it, very minor damage as follows:
1. Small crack in the lower shell at the base of a leg - most likely saved by the gimbal protector.
2. The camera was twisted backwards, not completely 180 degrees but not far off, the small retaining part on the pitch motor arm is not broken.
3. I am not sure if when you look at the gimbal from the side if the pitch motor arm should be slightly angle upwards or not ( it is )
4. The cables do not appear damaged at all, neither the ribbon cable or the other 2 antenna cables - I have released and re-attached them after refitting the gimbal.
Other hair tearing Issues!
The RC control red light will now not turn green, I have connected the controller by scrolling the the gimbal dial down and flicking S2 - the AC light goes green.
UPDATE THIS MORNING: - The AC light will not even go green now, since trying and failing to reinstall firmware, the link button does not seem to do anything now - not even light up.
I could start, stop and rev the motors but no video signal on the GO app, no battery strength and no communication with the AC in the app whatsoever. ( not now since firmware not working ) just constant Di Di, Di Di, Di Di from gimbal.
I have reset the WIFI to standard ( it was anyway ) and still no Green light on RC or Image in the GO app.
Once again trying to install latest firmware ( have tried older many times, all failed )
I don't get it - going back to the basics, the controller which was working perfectly with the drone until I crashed it will not connect with the Wifi on the drone, it did ( now doesn't ) connect to the drone to allow starting the motors ( I reckon I messed up the firmware )
Since the crash the red light on the RC has always stayed constant red, never green.
( I'm not counting when toggling the s2 switch etc )
Could all this be solved by replacing the ribbon cable? ( it doesn't look damaged )
Does the ribbon cable control the Wifi for video?
Update this morning, cannot update firmware at all.
Drone will not read firmware off the card ( freshly formatted each time ), also tried with pressing link button etc when starting.
I'm flummoxed - any help appreciated please, not much hair left now.
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