New flier from eastern Oregon

[Sandpiper270]

Hi all! I am from the Hermiston, Oregon area, a rural area. I am new to flying drones, and very new in the learning process. I have a small 10 acre farm to fly around and learn. I have broken a Mavic 2 zoom, hope to get parts tomorrow to repair it. I think the ESC board is dead. None of the lights or motors on the legs do anything at turn-on, but the video feed is good. In the meantime I am practicing with a Mavic Mini. I am very happy with the quality of pictures I am getting from the Mini. I will probably post some information about the operation of the ESC board as I learn about it. I don't see schematics here for that board. I think it is similar in nature to the circuitry for the Mavic Phantom that was described and documented in the Phantom 2 forum by na5n.

 

[Rattydude77]

Welcome to the forum

 

[dirkclod]

Welcome to Mavic Pilots .
I hope you will find our site helpful and look forward to any input , photo's/video's you might post .
Don't be shy and ask anything if you can't find it by searching .

 

[Drone Master]

Welcome to Mavic Pilots! Enjoy the forum!

 

[Sandpiper270]

Welcome to Mavic Pilots! Enjoy the forum!

Thank you! I have been looking through forum posts and have already learned quite a bit. I am currently flying the MM with a Samsung tablet. I ordered the mount that seemed most recommended here, and it should be arriving via UPS in the next few hours.

 

[old man mavic]

welcome to the forum

 

[mrjohnc1]

Welcome!

 

[Gindra]

Welcome to this incredible forum from Western Oregon! Lots to learn and this is a great place to do so. Happy Flying.

 

[Laborous]

Welcome to the forum from the beautiful woods of Maine!

 

[Hauptmann]

Welcome to you from the wide-open spaces of Texas!

The Mini is a great machine. We have over 100,000 members around the world who are here to help you grow as a pilot and photographer. Hope you solve the problem with your M2Z Esc board!

Glad to have you with us!

 

[Motorcycle Rider]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[Sandpiper270]

Thanks to all the kind replies! I was practicing coordinated turns with the M2Z when I got too close to a tree and the drone came down. Broke the of the little tab on each the rear legs that limit the angular movement of the legs, have one of those repaired, the other one still needs to be changed out but still flies OK. Also broke a left front swivel pin on the leg mount to the chassis, that is also repaired. Somewhere late in the repair process the ESC board stopped controlling anything. I have it replaced now, and am back flying the M2Z. I still don't know what took out the ESC board, it worked after the crash. I think one of the motor control MOSFETs is bad and overheating. I haven't determined which winding it was driving, but I think it was a front motor. Happened about the time I was replacing the hinge pin on the left front leg, but doing that doesn't require touching any exposed electrical things. It does require some movement of the wired going into that leg, so maybe that is a clue.
Wishing I had a slip-skid indicator, it is hard to judge that at a distance. More practice required!