Gimbal overload, mad camera movement while flying
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Snowwolfwarrior
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Just had a problem that I have never had before, I had flown 3 batteries worth of flying and on the 4th battery I had flown to a height of 100 mtrs and was doing a 2 second timed recording on a new round about near were I live, all of a sudden while looking at the screen it appeared the p4p was tumbling out the sky, my heart sank, then a gimbal overload warning came up on screen, I checked other settings and it appeared the drone was still stationary with the camera jerking about all over the place, I spun the bird around and headed back to home, the camera now just showing the leg of the p4p, I got it back ok which was a big relief.
Anyone else had this problem happen ? I shut the drone down and restarted and it seemed ok, bit of a worry
2017-4-3
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adrian8891
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Seems not only You have similar problem:

https://forum.dji.com/thread-90917-1-1.html
https://forum.dji.com/thread-91159-1-1.html
https://forum.dji.com/thread-90752-1-1.html

It would be nice to let DJI know about this.
2017-4-3
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DJI-Jamie
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Did you notice this happening when yawing quickly, or was this while flying forward or while stationary? You haven't flown it since the incident, correct?
2017-4-4
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adrian8891
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It happened to me when flying forward with low speed. Wind was around 2-3m/s and YES I have flown later after reboot of aircraft with no issues.
2017-4-4
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Snowwolfwarrior
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I was stationary doing a timed shot sequence, I noticed a low plane flying nearby so I decided to lower the drone, And was a lot lower than 120 mtrs  and just precautionary, all I done was descend and then noticed  on the screen that the camera was jumping all over the place, I decided to do an IMU and gimbal calibration today and flew 5 batteries worth of flying with no problems, just hope it does not happen again
2017-4-5
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Snowwolfwarrior
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adrian8891 Posted at 2017-4-4 21:42
It happened to me when flying forward with low speed. Wind was around 2-3m/s and YES I have flown later after reboot of aircraft with no issues.

Very odd it should happen, I thought the drone was falling out the sky !!!!!
2017-4-5
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Snowwolfwarrior Posted at 2017-4-5 13:03
Very odd it should happen, I thought the drone was falling out the sky !!!!!

Exactly I was thinking same way! I almost got heart attack ;)
2017-4-7
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Snowwolfwarrior
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Mine has been ok since, odd and hope it does not come back lol
2017-4-7
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Dav 0
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I had it also happen once. It was on a relatively cold morning so put it down to condensation or something. No problems since. Scared the life out of me though.
2017-4-8
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Snowwolfwarrior
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Lol sure scared the life out of me too Dav, was warm and dry when it happened to me, I was fly quite a way up and away from me and had lost sight of it when I looked at the screen and it just looked like it was tumbling out the sky, below was a pretty wide river !!!!!
2017-4-8
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