P3A compass calibration error

[Low Flying Scotsman]

I had a problem calibrating the compass at the weekend. I'd gone to a spot I'd flown at before but the app displayed a compass error and prompted me to recalibrate. I had umpteen goes at this, moving large distances between each attempt and eventually changed the battery as it had gone down to 59%.

The repeating error had warned of high electromagnetic interference and when I changed the battery it struck me that maybe my new Rewire T102 GPS tracker (attached to the legs) was causing the problem. I took it off and the drone calibrated fine.

What I don't know is: was it the battery swap or the GPS removal that fixed it (or neither)?

Anyone else have any compass problems with a tracker mounted?

 

[alokbhargava]

Avoid running external wires parallel to compass wires.

 

[AHill]

Compass is in the legs; maybe it was attached to same leg as compass? Battery swap should not affect compass unless phantom rebooted which could have made a difference.

 

[Low Flying Scotsman]

Compass is in the legs; maybe it was attached to same leg as compass? Battery swap should not affect compass unless phantom rebooted which could have made a difference.

Thanks, I didn't know that's where the compass is. How do other folk attach their GPS to the Phantom, velcro on the top of the body?

 

[Trackman1]

Might just have been the reboot fixed it. Has happened to me before. Now if I get errors before take off, I just shut everything down and start it back up.