timonroecg
lvl.3
Flight distance : 156401 ft
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I replaced this board on the gimbal and thought I'd share a pic and some notes in case you're thinking about trying this. Here's the original thread where I was getting a solid red light on the gimbal.
** If you disconnect the cables from the board I believe it will void your warranty. To be safe, contact DJI first and find out. See C) and D) below for more details.
** Also, if your gimbal is still under warranty I'd recommend sending it in to DJI and let them handle it. This turned out to be harder than I thought... see below.
The board is located on the bottom of the gimbal. Here's what it looks like after you remove the 4 screws and take the cover off:
To replace the board you first have to disconnect the 4 connecting cables... from the pic:
A) Camera Shutter Control Cable - plugs into the camera. This cable is easy to disconnect from the board and reconnect. If you need a new one you can find it in the Zenmuse Z15-GH4 gimbal cable pack for $25.
B) HDMI Cable - also plugs into the camera. This cable is also pretty easy to disconnect but a little harder to reconnect. Take a close look at the pic and you'll see that it's folded up and placed between two pieces of double-sided tape. One piece of tape holds it all down onto the board, the other piece of tape keeps everything together and folded up. If you take your time you can get this all put back together just as it appears in this photo. If you need to replace this cable, a new one costs around $50.
C) and D). These two cables are connected up into the gimbal itself and not sure specifically what they do, other than the obvious. This is where things go a little difficult, at least for me. If you look closely at D) you'll see a white plasticy coating over this connector. First I had to remove this coating before I could disconnect the cable. Not sure what purpose this coating serves and think if it's removed DJI will void the warranty... this may be the only reason it exists but not sure. Also, these two connectors, C) and D) were really hard to disconnect... so much so that there might be a special tool for doing so. I ended up breaking both of them trying to get them off which led to having to solder all of those individual wires within each cable... think it was a total of 17 wires that needed to be soldered. If you do find yourself in this situation and need to solder them, make sure you do it outside of the cover. If the wires are soldered under the cover you probably won't be able to get the cover back on.
Now that you've gotten all 4 cables disconnected, putting the new board on is pretty easy. Get everything lined up and reconnect all of the cables. There was thread locker on the 4 screws so make sure you put some back on when putting the cover back on.
Hope this helps and good luck if you give it a try.
If anyone has anything to add, especically about cables C) and D), would be great to hear from you.
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