Good morning everyone,
Was curious if anyone else has had issues with the prop contacting the body/left front arm (one with Mavic Mini on it) of the drone. I’ve went through 4 props and at first thought it was a wind issue but this morning I went out, no wind and the 5th one shows signs of contacting the body and arm. I compared the screws that retain the prop and can see no issues, hole not straight etc.
The only thing I notice is a slight clicking noise when the left front arm is extended and retracted. Drone flies fine indoors and hovers flies fine slow outdoors but any fast movements forward/backwards will cause contact and a severe chattering noise. I’ll attach some pictures.
Thanks everyone for any help you can offer.
We have been doing some testing since this subject came up considering the Wet Suits adds 1/16 th Neoprene cover to the Mavic Mini and we have done several test trying to get those props to smash into the drone.
Even when its wet and near frozen the Props show a lot of room above the Mavic Mini
We did notice that these screws are very small and that props tended to be a little loose even after making them a little tighter.
So the Wet Suits do offer Prop Covers but only to make the Props Tighter not to raise them and to block debris from getting inside the motors.
The Wet Suit Prop Covers keep the Props so tight that they do not spin freely but together as a single prop meaning it no longer folds in unless forced a little.
The design flaw may be the screws our just to small to really snug up the props.
The Mavic Mini wet suit Prop covers solve that issue by making the props tighter.
When we compared the aluminum ones that you can purchase on ebay, they also block the motors from debris but the wide open screw holes do not allow you to get the props any tighter.
Something to consider in these Prop alerts that keep showing up on the forum.
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For those asking if the tighter props have changed the flight characteristics , nothing that we have noticed..