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Air 3s Gimbal Overload warning and now Gimbal Stuck

1gratefulflyingdawg

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Hello
Your help is needed in resolving this issue and I appreciate anyone’s guidance.

My first drone and Air3s which I’ve flown several times probably only a couple hours flight time. It has not crashed or had a hard landing. I have been very careful handling it. I flew it yesterday morning, there were no issues when I put it away. For me putting it away is setting it on a table in a room where no one goes. I remove the battery and turn a fan on the drone to cool it down.

I came back in the evening to fly again and I got a gimbal overload as I was getting it ready to fly. I did not fly, did a shut down and restart of drone and controller. Tried a gimbal calibration and it would not complete past 60% I left it over night and this morning I have appeared to only make it work as now it says gimbal stuck and gimbal reset only makes it to 40%. On start up the gimbal does not appear to go through it system check.

Here is what I have done.
With drone off I can fully move the gimbal in all directions. There does not seem to be any resistance or restrictions. There movement is smooth.

I have connected to the fly app on my iPhone and there are no software updates available

I have carefully blown out the gimbal area not with canned air.

I have recalibrated the IMU

Attempts to calibrate gimbal don’t get past 40%.

The camera will giggle a little every once in a while. I have been very carefully with the 3s as it is my first drone. Because this my troubleshooting skills apparently aren’t what they need to be. I think I have done everything I have found online. Would appreciate any suggestions before I contact DJI Support.

Again thanks for your time.
 
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With a finger very carefully move the gimbal do you feel any grit? The air 3 is picky about that error and you will see it again BUT really the only thing that could be "Wrong" with the Drone is the gimbal has debris or you need to update or refresh the Firmware.
 
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@Cafguy moving the gimbal when it is not under power I do not feel any grit, but I will recheck that.
I need to look up how to do firmware update.
Thanks for the help.
 
Do your updating thru the assistant software
 

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