Faken
lvl.3
Canada
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Well I guess it happen to happen eventually... Was flying my Phantom 2 Vision+ around the park in front of my house and landed it on my front walk and shut down the rotors. Without powering anything off in my setup, I restarted the rotors and the Phantom immediately went straight up full throttle and smacked in to an overhanging tree branch about 15 feet up and tumbled down, landing squarely upside down on top of the rotors.
I've changed the rotors and opened the unit, nothing appears to be loose or broken inside although I did notice one motor was crooked... so first question, are these units only supposed to have 2 of the 4 motor screws in place?? I didn't notice this till now but only the 2 INNER motor bolts are in on all 4 motors, the two outter bolts are missing and it was received this way. This normal? Anyhow, all I did was swap the bolts on the motor that was off kilter and it's fine now.
I also use a gimble saver, the gimbal did not break off in any way.
So I've started it back up and everything is working normal except I am getting a gimbal error in the phone app when I am in camera mode, saying gimbal error, check for something blocking the gimbal. Now the gimbal is operational and moves up and down, and stabilization seems to be fine, however the up and down axis motor makes a slight grinding sound constantly while the Phantom is powered on.
Is there anything I can do or is the gimbal toast? It's functional, but makes the noise and generates the error on the app.
And yes I'm an idiot for taking off near a tree, pretty sure I said "I'm an idiot" as I watched in tumble end over end in slow motion right after "WTF?!?!" when it took off straight up all on it's own.
Thanks in advance!
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