You can but when your dealing with an electrical problem you can't say for sure where the damage has spread to. Ive been thought this man and it just cost me more money trying to fix it. I went through 3 ribbon wires, 2 pitch boards, one yaw arm, and 5 disassemblys. After all that it still didn't work. The gimbal assembly is really easy to swap out. 8 screws hold it on and 2 more screws that hold the wiring bracket on and then you just disconnect the 2 connections. Installing the new gimbal assembly is the same process in reverse. When mine shorted out it fried the pitch board but it also fried the board inside the body of the gimbal assembly that controls the gimbal and the video feed. There was more damage than just what was obviously fried. All these systems are tied together so the damage can anywhere in the system. Changing the gimbal assembly is gonna offer the least frustration. I wouldn't tell you this if I haven't just been through it.