tejones777
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Possibly.....
I can only tell for sure about my Phantom 2 Vision+ experience, which may give a bit of insight. I doubt anyone has tried to remove the camera gimbal on the P3P/P3A to know for sure.
I know (from experience) that you can fly the Vision+ without the camera/gimbal, however, the telemetry back to the receiver wouldn't work because the Wi-Fi transmitter has it's power supplied indirectly though the gimbal, fur unclear reasons. Yes, the power line comes from the phantom main board, down to the gimbal, then back up to the Wi-Fi transmitter module. Not sure why they did that. Therefore, when you unplugged the camera/gimbal, the power supply to the Wi-Fi transmitter was cut, and while you could fly the Phantom 2, not only was the video gone, but the display of the Phantom's battery strength, GPS position, altitude, were all missing. Luckilly, the hackers on the "PhantomPilots" forum figured out how to get power to the Wi-Fi module, and published wiring diagrams with connections/pinouts of the gimbal/camera unit, and the Wi-Fi module, and so we figured out how to attach our own camera and gimbal replacement (the Vision+ camera/gimbal replacement is almost $600, so I, and many other Vision+ owners, replaced this with our own Go-Pro and third party gimbal system which is much cheaper. The only thing you can't do, is start and stop the video recording, and take pictures while in flight through the DJI application. You have to manually start the video recorder on your go-pro before you take off, or you can just use the Mobizen Application on android devices to record your android devices screen.
I've noticed that the P3P and P3A gimbal unit has much fewer connection/ribbon cables to connect it (an 8 pin ribbon cable, and a 5 pin ribbon cable) so I suspect they didn't send any vital power cables down to the gimbal and back up to the phantom circuitry, like they did on the P2 Vision+. I'd bet money the P3A or P3P flies just fine without the camera/gimbal, with the exception that you won't have video, and the DJI Pilot application will say there's no SD card in place, so you can't take pictures.
Now, why do you ask? What are you thinking? If you have a Phantom 3 where you broke the gimbal (like I'm sure a lot of people already have) go ahead and unplug those 2 ribbon cables, and see how it flies?
- Thomas.
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