High Tech Redneck

[Mad Mavic]

I took the big plunge and bought a new upper power board, a flat ribbon cable, GPS/Compass #1 unit , heat sink fan, right front foot, and upper cover. After a few hours of reconstruction, botta bioom, botta bing, i'm back in the air.

Bought a $7 soldering iron at Walmart. Spent some time price shopping on Ebay. Ended up fixing my Mavic Pro Platinum for $325; DJI was going to charge me $1075... those stinkers

I have to say, given that my drone was a complete basket case, I was actually surprised the darn thing flew LOL

 

[dirkclod]

Use any duct tape ? Hey I'm a redneck in MS and we use it for anything
Side asle in back of Wally World here .

 

[MavicCF]

Use any duct tape ? Hey I'm a redneck in MS and we use it for anything
Side asle in back of Wally World here .

You forgot baling wire and Harbor Freight vice-grips! You can do anything with those three!

@Mad Mavic glad you got it fixed, and nice job doing it yourself!

 

[Flycaster]

Man, the repair costs were more than the price of a new bird...........

 

[Mad Mavic]

I’m going to have to say that working on the Mavic Pro is not only an easy process but the darn drone itself is quite resilient giving its frame.

I dropped of the sky from 350 feen into a hay field and only suffered one arm breaking off. I’ve worked on this thing so much that I just made a part to hold The arm in place and off I go again.

My first crash scared the crap out of me. Now some 50 crashed later, it’s just part of flying the limits.