I reacently have been flying my Mini 3 at night. One day, there were so many problems with my drone. The drone kept wanting me to recalibrate the compass. So i had to mannually turn the drone 360 degress. Then there was another problem. I would turn my drone a full 360 but it still wanted my to turn the drone more till around 390 degress then the drone thought it completed the 360 degress turn. I tried to recalibrate it multiple times tht day and I had to rotate the dron more than 360 degrees. This is obviously not supposed to happen. On the other days excluding that day with all these problems, the drone would calibrate the compass perfectly. I would complete the 360 degrees turn and the drone would complete the calibration. Going back to that day of bad experience, I could not get the compass to callibrate properly even though I tried it multiple times. I really wanted t fly that day so I still decided to fly the drone. Once the drone was in the air I noticed the drone was drifting around a lot. I could not even feel any wind and the drone had more than enough satellites connected. It had arround 20 satellites connected. So why was the drone not fixing its self through GPS to stop drifting? Even with all these problems I decided that the drone was still fine to fly higher up. Then another problem struck. Like I said earlier I was flying at night so it was really dark. The drone usually has it blinking green lights that allows me to easly see it. But this time for some random reason, the drone's lights decided to stop making light. They originally were producing light but then abruptly stopped. I immediatly lowered my altitude. For that flight I was flying straight up so I knew where the drone was. But imagine if the drone was not straight up and the lights stopped working, it would be extremely hard to find the drone. That would be a safety hazzard. Luckily, my drone returned back to the ground safely but it was still drifting   Around 3 days later I took the drone out flying and it flew perfectly normally. Could anyone help me find out what may have caused all of those problems on that sad day?

Thanks

One day, there were so many problems with my drone. The drone kept wanting me to recalibrate the compass.
And there's the cause of your problems.
Your compass never needs recalibrating.
Your compass was warning you that you had placed the drone in an area of magnetic interference and it was going to cause problems.
What you should have done was to shut down, move away from the problem and start again.

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Labroides Posted at 12-19 09:24
One day, there were so many problems with my drone. The drone kept wanting me to recalibrate the compass.
And there's the cause of your problems.
Your compass never needs recalibrating.

Thanks for your help

Serg SSA Posted at 12-19 11:26
Read the topic

https://forum.dji.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=319079

Very helpful, but then why were the lights off while the drone was flying?

I believe the lights go out when recording video. This happened tome once.

Catus Posted at 2024-12-22 01:09
I believe the lights go out when recording video. This happened tome once.

Yea, I was recording videos that night. I guess that explains it, thanks!