I have a Mavic Pro Platinum with two controllers. I wanted to get my wife involved in flying so purchased the extra controller to use in a buddy system. Just after purchasing the Mavic I was carted off to hospital for 3 months and never got around to flying the Mavic. As I'm now confined to bed, it's been languishing in a wardrobe, still unflown.
Along comes a guy who asks to borrow one of the controllers. I was dumb enough to say OK. The following day he returns and tells me the controller isn't working, so I loaned him the second one. He returned the controllers, both with flat batteries. Which I failed to check before forgetting about them. A month later I got them out to charge them up but found neither would charge. in fact I couldn't insert the plug to charge them. I now know he wrecked the sockets and left me with two unusable controllers.
I've checked Ebay for a replacement and discovered the small PC boards with usable sockets. The trouble is I can almost buy a used controller for almost the same money, BUT do those controllers have faulty sockets? I've been caught on Ebay before.
My question is, does anyone have a controller for sale? Or does anyone know if I can buy a replacement controller to take the place if the standard unit? I'm reluctant to buy the original version again in case it's socket goes the same wacy. Maybe I have no choice, but perhaps someone has had a similar battle with Mavic Pro controllers and can point me in the right direction
By the way, the guy who borrowed the controllers has vanished, it's rumoured he left town to work elsewhere.
Along comes a guy who asks to borrow one of the controllers. I was dumb enough to say OK. The following day he returns and tells me the controller isn't working, so I loaned him the second one. He returned the controllers, both with flat batteries. Which I failed to check before forgetting about them. A month later I got them out to charge them up but found neither would charge. in fact I couldn't insert the plug to charge them. I now know he wrecked the sockets and left me with two unusable controllers.
I've checked Ebay for a replacement and discovered the small PC boards with usable sockets. The trouble is I can almost buy a used controller for almost the same money, BUT do those controllers have faulty sockets? I've been caught on Ebay before.
My question is, does anyone have a controller for sale? Or does anyone know if I can buy a replacement controller to take the place if the standard unit? I'm reluctant to buy the original version again in case it's socket goes the same wacy. Maybe I have no choice, but perhaps someone has had a similar battle with Mavic Pro controllers and can point me in the right direction
By the way, the guy who borrowed the controllers has vanished, it's rumoured he left town to work elsewhere.