FLDave
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Based on your inspection of the evidence you collected, the appearance of both top, bottom, and sides of the components, what do you think happened? Does the evidence indicate impact damager or damage before impact?
My drone exploded in mid air
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Ok I’ll check it out later I have to take my kids to football practice right now.
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First, sorry for your loss. Being a mechanical design technician for more than 30 years, looking at the picture we can clearly see that the plastic is deformed by heat and no traces of fire are visible (black smoke residue). I can’t see any evidence of the drone being shot, the body being way too intact to match a bullet impact. By the way the plastic is deformed outward, it seems the theory of an overheated battery explosion is possible.
Well….it is? I don’t know what to tell you but even I couldn’t tell the make from how mangled the body is.
I don’t carry explosive cargo because I don’t partake in criminal activities or terrorist attacks. I’d rather listen to the experts above than you to be honest. You can leave now if your not interested in helping.
The draft of this was written before I could see the photo and assumes that the drone was a mini 3 of some sort. Blue text is new.
If you did not delete the log from the screen device or move the log from the screen device to computer etc., is the App still able to replay the flight in the "profile" section of the App?
If so, then a good copy of the light log exists on the screen device.
What screen device were you using and if a phone what model of phone? Given that the drone is neither a mini 3 of any sort nor a mini 2 I suspect you will have been using a phone.
What version of the app in on that device?
If applicable, if the screen device has a file browser and you can navigate to the FlightRecord folder? If so, does the .txt show there? If so, what is the size of the file?
If you DO NOT sync your logs with DJI then have a look in the MCDatFlightRecords folder, there should be .DAT flight logs in there.
Does the last one have a date and time stamp that corresponds to the flight? If so COPY the DAT file to computer etc. and upload the copy to a file hosting site, make the upload public and post the URL here. That is relevant to the Mavic Mini and mini 3 pro, I suspect that the screen device DATs of the Mini SE and Mini 2 SE will be encrypted but that is a guess so it might be worth uploading the DAT log as described. Mini 2 DATs ARE encrypted so do not bother uploading the DAT if it is a mini 2.
If you did sync the logs then the above folder will probably be empty but I would suggest you MOVE all the existing .txt flight logs to computer i.e. make sure they are copied to another device and the original logs deleted form you ‘phone’. THEN do a sync, that sync should restore/copy all the previously synced .txt flight logs, coping them from DJI’s servers etc..
If you did not delete the log from the screen device or move the log from the screen device to computer etc., is the App still able to replay the flight in the "profile" section of the App?
If so, then a good copy of the light log exists on the screen device.
What screen device were you using and if a phone what model of phone? Given that the drone is neither a mini 3 of any sort nor a mini 2 I suspect you will have been using a phone.
What version of the app in on that device?
If applicable, if the screen device has a file browser and you can navigate to the FlightRecord folder? If so, does the .txt show there? If so, what is the size of the file?
If you DO NOT sync your logs with DJI then have a look in the MCDatFlightRecords folder, there should be .DAT flight logs in there.
Does the last one have a date and time stamp that corresponds to the flight? If so COPY the DAT file to computer etc. and upload the copy to a file hosting site, make the upload public and post the URL here. That is relevant to the Mavic Mini and mini 3 pro, I suspect that the screen device DATs of the Mini SE and Mini 2 SE will be encrypted but that is a guess so it might be worth uploading the DAT log as described. Mini 2 DATs ARE encrypted so do not bother uploading the DAT if it is a mini 2.
If you did sync the logs then the above folder will probably be empty but I would suggest you MOVE all the existing .txt flight logs to computer i.e. make sure they are copied to another device and the original logs deleted form you ‘phone’. THEN do a sync, that sync should restore/copy all the previously synced .txt flight logs, coping them from DJI’s servers etc..
No problem - Before I leave let me just say - Drones Don't EXPLODE- cannot happen, there is nothing that was included with your drone that could do that. Period.
Thank you Im sorry I couldn't contribute and I'm out.
See the engineers reply above for how it might’ve exploded. And exploded is only my perspective from what I saw anyway. Im
Sure the data will confirm the battery overheated and did something though. I’m just a little shocked about how many people seem to be assuming im a liar. Trust me I’d rather be flying the drone then posting on an online internet forum
Ps: the explosion may have something to do with the different aesthetic.
A shotgun slug round at 200 yards on a (most likely) moving target the size of a small dinner plate?! That would be one hell of a shot!
No one has said you are lying, but you did say in your OP that you were flying your mini 3 pro. The picture you provided is not a mini 3 pro. Can you explain that?
I must apologize myself but I build drones I work with these batteries That kind of explosion is unheard of and you would be the FIRST ever to have a mid-air explosion of an R.C. vehicle. The batteries are engineered to have a weak point so that they can't explode this way. Hope you solve the problem
Please see my other responses. It is a mini 3 pro, but looks completely different after the incident. It landed in a field with cows so maybe one of them stepped on it haha
I’m sorry I just feel attacked a bit to be honest from the questions. Maybe I should just contact DJI and move on. I’m aware that this is very rare and have scoured the internet to find others with my problem but to no avail. Hope DJI actually believe me
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