Hey there and thank you for response!
Negative on the insurance.. Doh!
I’ve been trying to do my due diligence on troubleshooting research. Just a lot of information to sift through with these machines. I’ll be happy to turn this thing over to a professional if they tell me it actually has a shot at being fixed right.
Thanks for the source recommendations. I’ll look into those. Hopefully they can get this fixed until I work up the courage to ask my wife for another drone haha.
i wasnt very hopeful for DJI.
Thank you again for your thoughtful response!
No probs, as you'll see a fair bit from various similar threads on the forum, some get theirs to fly again.
For how long, that's the key.
If splashed, you have a good chance at long term success, no need to flush thoroughly etc, but opened up some disassembly etc will help any very minor water ingress to be patted down and to dry out.
That would be the case with an immersion like yours too, need to get it open.
FWIW, here's what I'd do.
This is about all you can do for any water type, fresh is obviously less problematic corrosion wise.
If salt, then I'd literally pull the battery and put it and the drone into a bucket of fresh, any type of clear, water . . . tap water, rainwater, even fresh creek water, get that salt wet and as rinsed out as best / fast possible.
(In reality, if mine went into the sea and recoverable but wet through, it'd be never flown again.)
So . . .
Get drone out of water asap, towel down, remove battery asap.
(For the sake of brevity, assume each step also carries the term asap attached.)
Put battery somewhere safe outside, don't power on.
Get to your workbench, open up the body as best possible, flush with copious amounts of distilled water.
Then flush with copious amounts of isopropyl alcohol, this displaces the distilled water and dries out / evaporates very fast.
Put the drone and any components into a suitable size sealable tupperware or similar tub, with a good amount of silica gel decisent (separate drone from silica gel with a cloth, tea towel etc).
Leave for 3 - 4 days.
Pack up and send to a repair centre for a thorough pull down and check.
How feasible is all this ?
Access to those materials and gear ?
How fast you can get this done ?
Distilled water is readily available at most supermarkets etc.
Isopropyl is almost impossible to find around the World now (an excellent germ killer, someone's hoarding it !).
Silica Gel (maybe a kg / 2 pounds of it ?) needs good long term storage, container of right size on hand, etc.
I'm certainly not prepped for the above job.
Hey, really hope you can get a positive result, you can message that forum sponsor (
@djidroneservice ) or they'll pop by here tagged, or google thunderdrones, either should be able to give you the best advice after inspecting.