A few days ago I awoke in the middle of the night to the sound of what seemed like my smoke alarm going off. I hopped out of bed and quickly discovered that none of them had been triggered but there was still a similar sound coming from somewhere.
I then realised it was coming from my Mavic shoulder bag on my coffee table.
After having flown earlier that day, I did what I have done on every other flight. I packed up the bird, controller and batteries the way that's advised, and also the only way that makes logical sense for everything to fit.
So when I open the shoulder bag I find that's it's the controller beeping, I pull it out and the entire unit felt like it had been sitting in an oven for the past half hour. I look at the screen and it's constantly trying but failing to pair with the turned off drone, which has then obviously caused the controller to overheat.
I powered the controller down and then put my hand back inside the bag and found that everything inside was also dangerously hot.
Now I have no idea how the controller managed to turn itself on in the middle of the night. I live alone with my dog. The only explanation I have is she bumped the bag and it's toppled in a way with something either internally or externally, miraculously completing the 'press once, press and hold' power on sequence to the controllers power button.
Seems like a fairly unique and unlikely thing to happen, but maybe if the controller had continued its failed connecting loop, without me having awoken to it, it could potentially have caught fire and burnt my house down. Yet worse, melting the RC so I can't fly my Mavic.
Something to be weary of anyway I guess. The shoulder bags are a very tight fit with all the equipment packed inside, so make sure you store the bag somewhere it won't get knocked about!
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I then realised it was coming from my Mavic shoulder bag on my coffee table.
After having flown earlier that day, I did what I have done on every other flight. I packed up the bird, controller and batteries the way that's advised, and also the only way that makes logical sense for everything to fit.
So when I open the shoulder bag I find that's it's the controller beeping, I pull it out and the entire unit felt like it had been sitting in an oven for the past half hour. I look at the screen and it's constantly trying but failing to pair with the turned off drone, which has then obviously caused the controller to overheat.
I powered the controller down and then put my hand back inside the bag and found that everything inside was also dangerously hot.
Now I have no idea how the controller managed to turn itself on in the middle of the night. I live alone with my dog. The only explanation I have is she bumped the bag and it's toppled in a way with something either internally or externally, miraculously completing the 'press once, press and hold' power on sequence to the controllers power button.
Seems like a fairly unique and unlikely thing to happen, but maybe if the controller had continued its failed connecting loop, without me having awoken to it, it could potentially have caught fire and burnt my house down. Yet worse, melting the RC so I can't fly my Mavic.
Something to be weary of anyway I guess. The shoulder bags are a very tight fit with all the equipment packed inside, so make sure you store the bag somewhere it won't get knocked about!
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