Vergique
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United States
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Hi All,
I've checked all forums on this site and on others, but I canot find the answer to the question I was wondering:
I booted up my Phantom 2 Vision+ for the first time in a while at my grandparent's beach cottage in West Dennis MA. It had a good compass calibration, gps lock, and flew pretty smoothly. after about 15 minutes I took her down and landed her on the beach, but before I could kill the motors she fell over causing sand to get stuck in the motor.
Later that day, I wanted to fly again, the battery was charged, along with the transmitter and remote. All looked fine until I heard sand inside the motors. I sat there for about an hour hitting it gently and all the sand came out. We even tried putting a vacum up to the motors to suck the sand out. We then turned on the motors and they ran smoothly, so we decided to fly. I took her outside, remembering not to be so ignorant as to let her tip over, and used a peice of plywood as a landing pad. I turned on the bird, the remote, the transmitter, and connected my iPod to the drone's network. I then tried to calibrate the compass. It wouldn't calibrate, and the lights flashed red to yellow and then back again.
I tried multiple stratergies, moving away from high voltage power lines, moving away from cars, keeping the remote at least 10 feet away from the controller, ect. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't get a compass calibration. We decided to call it a night, pack up the bird, go out for dinner at the Kreme and Kone (If you haven't been to West Dennis, It's an amazing seafood resturaunt) and drive home. We got home at about 10:30 that night.
Next Saturday, the day I'm writing this, we decided to try and boot up the drone. I went outside and saw If I could get a calibration, and I still couldn't. It was at this moment when I realized that I hadn't updated my firmware. I took the bird inside, plugged her into my laptop, and as soon as I connected to the NAZA software, and got an update. The update was sucessfull, so I turned off the bird and turned her back on. An error message popped up saying, "ERROR 27". In a nutshell, I found that there was a compass error. I used the forum to look for remedies for this problem, I used a magnet to circle around the compass, and noting worked.
If anyone knows how to help me, please don't be afraid to answer.
Thank you,
Vergique
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