Willsy
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This fix may have ACTUALLY WORKED!! YAY!
My drone worked as normal for several months until one day out of the blue I too had these issues start. Symptoms as follows.
* Mavic Air controller started insessently whining *beep beep beep* immediately after most power-ons. The only fix to my sanity was to re-run the joystick calibration, this stopped the constant beeping - albeit only TEMPORARILY - the next time i'd power up the controller I had to go through it all again!!
* Mavic Air controller joysticks and gimbal wheel signals were cross contaminating with other inputs.
For Example:
- Sometimes i'd move the gimbal wheel down and the Drone would turn left or right. This was visible in the calibration screen.
- Sometimes i'd move the left joystick up and I would get an opposite or mirrored response on the right joystick (or vice versa), resulting in some frustratingly un-flyable scenarios. This was completely random and would change all the time, sometimes the effect was weak, sometimes everything worked FINE! Other times a push on one joystick resulted in a stronger response on the other joystick. Really frustrating!
No amount of calibrations, factory resets or firmware upgrades fixed the issues. This drove me to almost sell my Mavic Air due to the utter frustration it caused.
My Mavic Air is out of warranty so I've just recently attempted the DIY repair explained above this post. I can confirm that opening the DJI controller and lubricating the springs/connections on each Joystick has made a significant improvement to the insessent beeping upon power-up. Before the calibration alarm was occurring about 9 in every 10 power-ons, always requiring an immediate re-calibration to shut it up. Now, after applying lubricant to the internals of both joysticks, only one calibration was required initially, then SILENCE and no further calibrations since!!!!!
As for the input signal contamination, It's too early to tell after applying the fix but so far several flights have been attempted post fix and absolutely no cross signal contamination is evident! Fingers crossed.
As for the fix itself, don't attempt this if you're Mavic is covered by warranty! But If you have no choice, it's worth doing. The fix seems daunting at first but honestly isn't too complicated, can be done in 30-45mins. |
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