Hey everyone,
I'm new on the forum but I would appreciate any advice or assistance on my Mavic Pro Platinum. I had ordered and installed the propeller cages on my Mavic and did a test flight inside my house to see actually how well these worked. I barely had tapped the wall (drifted into it) and the drone crashed flipping itself upside down upon landing on my carpet. This resulted in the cage breaking and propellers damaged. I immediately took the cages and propellers off and returned the drone to how it was prior. There didn't seem to be anything wrong besides the damage to the cage and "cage" propellers. I took the drone out the next day following the crash and attempted to fly it. This resulted in a gimbal motor overload message. The Mavic was very shaky upon flight and didn't respond very well to controller movements. I decided to replace the gimbal ribbon and tried to see if this would fix the issue. After installing it and putting everything back together, I could not get the gimbal to calibrate past 5%. I figured the new ribbon was possibly bad from where I ordered it online so I contacted the manufacturer and they sent out another replacement. After installing the ribbon for the second time, I received the same failed calibration message after 5%.
At this point, I reset the factory defaults on the drone, completed an IMU calibration successfully, compass calibration and then attempted the gimbal calibration. This time, I was able to get the calibration to 52%. I attempted to use different batteries and even tried turning the drone off and back on. I think I've tried just about everything I can in terms of calibrating the gimbal. The gimbal itself seems to point straight when turned on and moves just like it use to prior to the crash. I don't really want to send in the drone to DJI because the crash was so minor and I was using "their" propeller cages to prevent damage if the drone ended up touching objects nearby in flight.
The next step I can think of is replacing the gimbal assembly itself. However, if anyone has any advice or assistance on this, I would greatly appreciate it!
Thank you!
I'm new on the forum but I would appreciate any advice or assistance on my Mavic Pro Platinum. I had ordered and installed the propeller cages on my Mavic and did a test flight inside my house to see actually how well these worked. I barely had tapped the wall (drifted into it) and the drone crashed flipping itself upside down upon landing on my carpet. This resulted in the cage breaking and propellers damaged. I immediately took the cages and propellers off and returned the drone to how it was prior. There didn't seem to be anything wrong besides the damage to the cage and "cage" propellers. I took the drone out the next day following the crash and attempted to fly it. This resulted in a gimbal motor overload message. The Mavic was very shaky upon flight and didn't respond very well to controller movements. I decided to replace the gimbal ribbon and tried to see if this would fix the issue. After installing it and putting everything back together, I could not get the gimbal to calibrate past 5%. I figured the new ribbon was possibly bad from where I ordered it online so I contacted the manufacturer and they sent out another replacement. After installing the ribbon for the second time, I received the same failed calibration message after 5%.
At this point, I reset the factory defaults on the drone, completed an IMU calibration successfully, compass calibration and then attempted the gimbal calibration. This time, I was able to get the calibration to 52%. I attempted to use different batteries and even tried turning the drone off and back on. I think I've tried just about everything I can in terms of calibrating the gimbal. The gimbal itself seems to point straight when turned on and moves just like it use to prior to the crash. I don't really want to send in the drone to DJI because the crash was so minor and I was using "their" propeller cages to prevent damage if the drone ended up touching objects nearby in flight.
The next step I can think of is replacing the gimbal assembly itself. However, if anyone has any advice or assistance on this, I would greatly appreciate it!
Thank you!