Granddaughter opened a photo business, mainly weddings, purchased a DJI AIR 2S and on second flight it took off on its own and crashed into a tree. Broke front right arm, left front arm not broken but in frame of main body damaged, back right arm damage to the drone body, left arm no damage. Camera gimble main metal shaft broken into and wire to the camera broken into and camera itself found on the ground next to the drone body. $1500.00 bucks shot. I have built many desktops in my 78 years, fish finders and depth finders for boats, but I have never thought of repairing a drone. Little did I know what I was getting into! I am not really sure where are who designed this disaster, but it would win a Nobel Award for stupid of the year. Started to take it apart and fairly quick determined that this was a bad idea. I started making a list of questions about screws that were so small that if you dropped one on the carpet you would have to get the metal detector out to find it. Screws have threads but they were made to use with bolts. So much for the complaining!
Purchase all 4 arms without wires. All new plastic main body parts. Set of screws recommended by DJI. New gimble for the camera. Thought I could remove the wires out of the old, damaged arms, which I did, but what looks like a section of the arms on the new arms without wires would pop off and then snap back on. Good luck with that! Finally decided to just order new arms with wires and motors. Installed the new back arms no problem. Soldering was a different story. the BLACK, WHITE, and GRAY dots on the electric board that run the back arm motors are so close together and being myself now 78 years young and being a little shaky the solder wants to run where it should not be going. Finally got back arms back like they were supposed to be.
Here are the questions I have and hopefully a drone expert can answer them.
PROBLEM 1. When I started the install of the new front arms with wiring and motors and new front arm axis connectors and knowing about the little notch for proper installation and two screws all went well. Ready for pushing the arm forward for the arms regular locked flight position. It would not lock and stay in that position. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT CAUSES THIS AND HOW TO FIX IT? I then thought I will try the right side with new arm and axis connector. Same thing, the arm would not lock forward in the flight position. This is crazy! NEED HELP WITH THIS!
PROBLEM 2. When she purchased this drone at BEST BUY the right front motor had an orange top denoting the orange marked propeller was to be placed on that position. Also, the back left arm also has an orange marking and the other orange marked propeller goes on that position. The right back motor is marked black as well as the front left motor is black, and the two black propellers go on these motors. MY QUESTION IS THE NEW ARM MOTOR ON THE FRONT HAS NO ORANGE MARKING AND THE BACK LEFT ARM MOTOR HAS NO ORANGE MARKING. THE TWO SCREWS THAT HOLD THE CAPS WITH THE ORANGE MARKINGS THAT CAME OFF THE OLD MOTORS ARE PLACED ON THE BACK LEFT AND FRONT RIGHT. I AM ASSUMING THAT THESE ARMS AND MOTORS FOLLOW A PATTERN OF PROPELLER ROTATION. AM I CORRECT IN MY ASSUMPATION?
I HAVE PROBLEMS NOW BUT WAIT UNTIL I TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO FIX THE CAMERA? I WILL BE BACK WITH MORE QUESTIONS!
THANKS FOR LISTENING AND ANY INPUT ABOUT QUESTIONS!
Purchase all 4 arms without wires. All new plastic main body parts. Set of screws recommended by DJI. New gimble for the camera. Thought I could remove the wires out of the old, damaged arms, which I did, but what looks like a section of the arms on the new arms without wires would pop off and then snap back on. Good luck with that! Finally decided to just order new arms with wires and motors. Installed the new back arms no problem. Soldering was a different story. the BLACK, WHITE, and GRAY dots on the electric board that run the back arm motors are so close together and being myself now 78 years young and being a little shaky the solder wants to run where it should not be going. Finally got back arms back like they were supposed to be.
Here are the questions I have and hopefully a drone expert can answer them.
PROBLEM 1. When I started the install of the new front arms with wiring and motors and new front arm axis connectors and knowing about the little notch for proper installation and two screws all went well. Ready for pushing the arm forward for the arms regular locked flight position. It would not lock and stay in that position. DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT CAUSES THIS AND HOW TO FIX IT? I then thought I will try the right side with new arm and axis connector. Same thing, the arm would not lock forward in the flight position. This is crazy! NEED HELP WITH THIS!
PROBLEM 2. When she purchased this drone at BEST BUY the right front motor had an orange top denoting the orange marked propeller was to be placed on that position. Also, the back left arm also has an orange marking and the other orange marked propeller goes on that position. The right back motor is marked black as well as the front left motor is black, and the two black propellers go on these motors. MY QUESTION IS THE NEW ARM MOTOR ON THE FRONT HAS NO ORANGE MARKING AND THE BACK LEFT ARM MOTOR HAS NO ORANGE MARKING. THE TWO SCREWS THAT HOLD THE CAPS WITH THE ORANGE MARKINGS THAT CAME OFF THE OLD MOTORS ARE PLACED ON THE BACK LEFT AND FRONT RIGHT. I AM ASSUMING THAT THESE ARMS AND MOTORS FOLLOW A PATTERN OF PROPELLER ROTATION. AM I CORRECT IN MY ASSUMPATION?
I HAVE PROBLEMS NOW BUT WAIT UNTIL I TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO FIX THE CAMERA? I WILL BE BACK WITH MORE QUESTIONS!
THANKS FOR LISTENING AND ANY INPUT ABOUT QUESTIONS!