Ok, so the other day I crashed my mavic (freaked out when it initiated an auto land over a railing, rookie mistake) into a wall.
The result was my gimbal was just hanging there, the Gimbal Vibration Board (piece that it screws into and holds the gimbal on) broke. So i ordered a new Gimbal Vibration Board from Amazon.
Watched some videos and did the repair by taking the mavic apart to get to the whole assembly, took it out, took out the broken gimbal vibration board (held in place by those 4 rubber things) and put the new one in after running the ribbon cable through the hole and screwing the gimbal on.
After it was all said and done, I started the mavic up and it works like a charm. Nice clear picture, gimbal up/down control nice and smooth, everything is great, $10 fix .... that could have been worse.
But what I've started noticing today is that while my mavic was stationary in the air, the camera would very slowly go left, even though the drone wasn't moving in any direction (I had LOS). So I spoke with Thunderdrones and he recommended to do a IMU Calibration, Compass Calibration, and auto calibrate the gimbal, which I did.
I then decided what the heck, weather is nice and I am feeling risky, so I set up a long (3 mile total) waypoint mission in Litchi.
I sent the drone off knowing I would lose complete connection. When the Mavic returned, I watched the footage and something is definitely still wrong. It seems as though right as I lose connection (about 2:29 into the video), the gimbal just goes awry, sideways, and shaky ... you can easily tell in the video below. I gain connection again probably around the 8:15 mark and the video is nice and smooth again.
Could someone maybe point me to what the problem MIGHT be? Why is it nice and still when having connection but not when I don't? I've ran many non-connection waypoint missions before and video was nice and smooth throughout the flight, that's why I am thinking something is still wrong .... I just don't know where to start?
Thank You!!
The result was my gimbal was just hanging there, the Gimbal Vibration Board (piece that it screws into and holds the gimbal on) broke. So i ordered a new Gimbal Vibration Board from Amazon.
Watched some videos and did the repair by taking the mavic apart to get to the whole assembly, took it out, took out the broken gimbal vibration board (held in place by those 4 rubber things) and put the new one in after running the ribbon cable through the hole and screwing the gimbal on.
After it was all said and done, I started the mavic up and it works like a charm. Nice clear picture, gimbal up/down control nice and smooth, everything is great, $10 fix .... that could have been worse.
But what I've started noticing today is that while my mavic was stationary in the air, the camera would very slowly go left, even though the drone wasn't moving in any direction (I had LOS). So I spoke with Thunderdrones and he recommended to do a IMU Calibration, Compass Calibration, and auto calibrate the gimbal, which I did.
I then decided what the heck, weather is nice and I am feeling risky, so I set up a long (3 mile total) waypoint mission in Litchi.
I sent the drone off knowing I would lose complete connection. When the Mavic returned, I watched the footage and something is definitely still wrong. It seems as though right as I lose connection (about 2:29 into the video), the gimbal just goes awry, sideways, and shaky ... you can easily tell in the video below. I gain connection again probably around the 8:15 mark and the video is nice and smooth again.
Could someone maybe point me to what the problem MIGHT be? Why is it nice and still when having connection but not when I don't? I've ran many non-connection waypoint missions before and video was nice and smooth throughout the flight, that's why I am thinking something is still wrong .... I just don't know where to start?
Thank You!!
