I noticed my UAV cavitating or vibrating with a specific frequency with a rather large amplitude for a uav when I brought it in for a landing. Then I noticed a gimbal error message. After landing it tried aligning itself.
I turned everything off and hovered in my house. The cavitation came back. I then calibrated the gimbal. It failed. I then played with the gimbal and changed the battery and restarted a calibration. Calibration successful, no more cavitation..
I then test flew for 5 minutes and hovered several times, putting the drone through its paces. I moved the gimbal around a lot. Nothing happened. I mean, I've dropped my drone once or twice, but nothing seemed amiss.
Has anyone seen a drone vibration or cavitation occurring or coinciding with a gimbal malfunction?
I changed all the props, by the way and checked for debris in the motors. But it definitely coincides with the gimbal. If the gimbal fails to calibrate, the cavitation will definitely return.
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It's not related to the gimbal.
Here is what is happening so far. I take off sometimes it cavitates and sometimes it doesn't. When it does start cavitating, A few fast jerks to the front left or right or speedy circles in sports mode make the cavitation go away for the flight duration, ie till the battery is done. Sometimes it will try cavitating again, but a few jerks in sports mode, sets things to normal. What's up with that?
I turned everything off and hovered in my house. The cavitation came back. I then calibrated the gimbal. It failed. I then played with the gimbal and changed the battery and restarted a calibration. Calibration successful, no more cavitation..
I then test flew for 5 minutes and hovered several times, putting the drone through its paces. I moved the gimbal around a lot. Nothing happened. I mean, I've dropped my drone once or twice, but nothing seemed amiss.
Has anyone seen a drone vibration or cavitation occurring or coinciding with a gimbal malfunction?
I changed all the props, by the way and checked for debris in the motors. But it definitely coincides with the gimbal. If the gimbal fails to calibrate, the cavitation will definitely return.
-----------------EDIT----------------
It's not related to the gimbal.
Here is what is happening so far. I take off sometimes it cavitates and sometimes it doesn't. When it does start cavitating, A few fast jerks to the front left or right or speedy circles in sports mode make the cavitation go away for the flight duration, ie till the battery is done. Sometimes it will try cavitating again, but a few jerks in sports mode, sets things to normal. What's up with that?
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