I guess there is a first for everything! If you don’t know already, I am a new drone pilot. I got a DJI mini4 pro in early December. Well today I was out flying my drone and all of a sudden the image that I see on the controller is not what I was taking pictures of. It is as if there was an object in front of the drone at an inch distance. The screen just had a unidentified form on it. It turns out that a bird had touched or hit the drone (see picture below).
So at this point, I didn’t know what was going on. I hate to admit it but I had lost VLOS of the drone. So I hit the Return Home button. Nothing seems to happen from what I saw on the screen. The screen looked like the earth was upside down as if the drone was upside down. Then, I got a message on the screen that said : Gimbal motor overloaded. Gimbal motor overloaded. Land aircraft and check whether gimbal can rotate freely on all three axes (Code: 40003) and right after I got a similar message, different code : Gimbal motor overloaded. Land aircraft and check whether gimbal can rotate freely on all three axes (Code: 1D010003).
And the picture on the screen is not helping at all. So I think I tried to pause RTH and tried to move the drone forward although I didn’t know if I was going forward at this point since I couldn’t rely on the screen to give me a useful visual. Then I press again the RTH, 1 minute 17 sec later and it showed back the regular screen you see when you press the RTH button with the green cone. And the drone came back to the Home Point or there about!!!
After I looked at the flight log, I saw the following notification on the log 12 seconds before the Gimbal message. It said Detected side shock / possible collision, aircraft is rolling sharply to the left.
So did the bird touched the gimbal and cause the Gimbal error or are the two things unrelated?
I see that the “Gimbal motor overloaded” problem has happened to other people based on my research on the internet this afternoon.
The question is, What does it mean? What should I do now? Can I trust the Gimbal?
When I got home, I recalibrated the gimbal, just in case. What else can I do?
So at this point, I didn’t know what was going on. I hate to admit it but I had lost VLOS of the drone. So I hit the Return Home button. Nothing seems to happen from what I saw on the screen. The screen looked like the earth was upside down as if the drone was upside down. Then, I got a message on the screen that said : Gimbal motor overloaded. Gimbal motor overloaded. Land aircraft and check whether gimbal can rotate freely on all three axes (Code: 40003) and right after I got a similar message, different code : Gimbal motor overloaded. Land aircraft and check whether gimbal can rotate freely on all three axes (Code: 1D010003).
And the picture on the screen is not helping at all. So I think I tried to pause RTH and tried to move the drone forward although I didn’t know if I was going forward at this point since I couldn’t rely on the screen to give me a useful visual. Then I press again the RTH, 1 minute 17 sec later and it showed back the regular screen you see when you press the RTH button with the green cone. And the drone came back to the Home Point or there about!!!
After I looked at the flight log, I saw the following notification on the log 12 seconds before the Gimbal message. It said Detected side shock / possible collision, aircraft is rolling sharply to the left.
So did the bird touched the gimbal and cause the Gimbal error or are the two things unrelated?
I see that the “Gimbal motor overloaded” problem has happened to other people based on my research on the internet this afternoon.
The question is, What does it mean? What should I do now? Can I trust the Gimbal?
When I got home, I recalibrated the gimbal, just in case. What else can I do?