I tried to fly today. Pretty strong winds but I was in a place I was unlikely to see again so I went for it.
Not long after takeoff I got a wind warning, telling me to land it. I just recorded a 3-4 minute video, took some panos, then recorded video to move to a different location, where I did a couple more panos.
In the second location, the gimbal was going haywire. The warning was that the gimbal was overloaded. First warning I think was that there might be an obstruction for the gimbal to move around normally but then it said the gimbal motor was overloaded.
I've see this behavior before but here I had to abort my first two attempts to do 180 panos because it wasn't leveling the camera and thus it wasn't taking any pictures. I flew it slightly to a different location and it leveled enough for me to finish the panos and land.
Would gimbal motor be overworked fighting the wind? The wind wasn't the worst I've seen. I'd estimate maybe 20-25 MPH gusts. In other windy conditions, a few years ago, I never saw the gimbal fail to level out.
So I'm wondering if my M2P is showing its age. Despite having it 6-7 years, I don't fly a lot, only when I go on trips so that means on average, maybe 15-20 flights a year using up most of a battery. None of my batteries show sign of swelling but it does seem like they draw down faster than they used to.
The other thing is my controller, which I had fully charged the night before, showed 43% even as I completed this one flight, which ran maybe 10 minutes, drawing the battery down to 25-30%.
But the controller battery drawdown surprised me, never saw anything like it before. It would only show like 92-97% when fully charged.
Only reason why I kept it is because of shortcomings of newer models like the Air 3S, without a variable shutter and with the Quad Bayer thing which put off many people.
I was kind of waiting to see what the Mavic 4 would be like but now the price is likely going to be way more than I would pay.
I may have no choice but to buy any newer model that I can get my hands on.
Not long after takeoff I got a wind warning, telling me to land it. I just recorded a 3-4 minute video, took some panos, then recorded video to move to a different location, where I did a couple more panos.
In the second location, the gimbal was going haywire. The warning was that the gimbal was overloaded. First warning I think was that there might be an obstruction for the gimbal to move around normally but then it said the gimbal motor was overloaded.
I've see this behavior before but here I had to abort my first two attempts to do 180 panos because it wasn't leveling the camera and thus it wasn't taking any pictures. I flew it slightly to a different location and it leveled enough for me to finish the panos and land.
Would gimbal motor be overworked fighting the wind? The wind wasn't the worst I've seen. I'd estimate maybe 20-25 MPH gusts. In other windy conditions, a few years ago, I never saw the gimbal fail to level out.
So I'm wondering if my M2P is showing its age. Despite having it 6-7 years, I don't fly a lot, only when I go on trips so that means on average, maybe 15-20 flights a year using up most of a battery. None of my batteries show sign of swelling but it does seem like they draw down faster than they used to.
The other thing is my controller, which I had fully charged the night before, showed 43% even as I completed this one flight, which ran maybe 10 minutes, drawing the battery down to 25-30%.
But the controller battery drawdown surprised me, never saw anything like it before. It would only show like 92-97% when fully charged.
Only reason why I kept it is because of shortcomings of newer models like the Air 3S, without a variable shutter and with the Quad Bayer thing which put off many people.
I was kind of waiting to see what the Mavic 4 would be like but now the price is likely going to be way more than I would pay.
I may have no choice but to buy any newer model that I can get my hands on.
. Yours is NOT showing age and you simply have some simple care and cleaning to do.
