Hi all, first time posting so hopefully the video I tried to attach works.
I bought a damaged Mavic Air 2s a few months ago as I like tinkering with drones and it was way too cheap to pass up.
Long story short, the guy I bought it from used superglue on all of the gimbal motors to keep it from moving. I'm assuming he was either having issues with it and didn't know what he was doing or he was on some hardcore drugs (the SD card that came with the drone had footage from what looked like a rave).
Either way, I figured I could fix it and still come in way cheaper than a new Air 2s.
After removing all of the glue (full disassembly of gimbal), the gimbal would run through the initialization movement seemingly fine but would then give me a "gimbal stuck" error and would go limp.
I after many attempts to clean it more and run it through calibrations, I figured the motors were more than likely toasted from being locked in place by the glue.
I bought a new camera enclosure with the pressed in P axis motor as well as the gimbal arm (includes the other two motors). I didn't replace the "Y" arm since replacements are not available and it didn't look damaged.
The gimbal seems to initialize fine now, I get no error notifications and the gimbal attempts to work... With the exception that it now points down and off the the side, far more that can be compensated for with manual calibration offsets.
I've ordered a new ribbon (flex) cable since it was cheap and I figured the old one may have been damaged.
Has anyone had a similar issue?
Is it the ribbon cable? Are the replacement parts I got potentially faulty? I've also heard of people using a Python based utility to rectify calibration issues after parts replacements. Should that be my first step?
Any replies are very much appreciated, I'm dying to fly this thing!
Thanks!
I bought a damaged Mavic Air 2s a few months ago as I like tinkering with drones and it was way too cheap to pass up.
Long story short, the guy I bought it from used superglue on all of the gimbal motors to keep it from moving. I'm assuming he was either having issues with it and didn't know what he was doing or he was on some hardcore drugs (the SD card that came with the drone had footage from what looked like a rave).
Either way, I figured I could fix it and still come in way cheaper than a new Air 2s.
After removing all of the glue (full disassembly of gimbal), the gimbal would run through the initialization movement seemingly fine but would then give me a "gimbal stuck" error and would go limp.
I after many attempts to clean it more and run it through calibrations, I figured the motors were more than likely toasted from being locked in place by the glue.
I bought a new camera enclosure with the pressed in P axis motor as well as the gimbal arm (includes the other two motors). I didn't replace the "Y" arm since replacements are not available and it didn't look damaged.
The gimbal seems to initialize fine now, I get no error notifications and the gimbal attempts to work... With the exception that it now points down and off the the side, far more that can be compensated for with manual calibration offsets.
I've ordered a new ribbon (flex) cable since it was cheap and I figured the old one may have been damaged.
Has anyone had a similar issue?
Is it the ribbon cable? Are the replacement parts I got potentially faulty? I've also heard of people using a Python based utility to rectify calibration issues after parts replacements. Should that be my first step?
Any replies are very much appreciated, I'm dying to fly this thing!
Thanks!