Worth Fixing? Crashed Mavic Pro

[MAvic_South_Oz]

It'd be great to see a photo of your sons face when he first gets this going !
Kids will fly this like a pro on wifi / phone in about 5 minutes, lol.

 

[p2k]

Sorry for the lack of updates, shortly after my last post I did something embarrassingly stupid and burned out one of the motor ESCs.

Starz did follow through with the props, so thanks for that!

For the last month I've been trying to get another drone and when i almost gave up, someone messaged me with a crashed drone, controller and battery. The drone even had its gimbal and camera, but the gimbal was pretty badly damaged.

The new drone took a pretty hard hit, the cooling fan was cracked inside the drone. Annoyingly the all the arms were good except the same one that was broken on the original. My Aliexpress replacement has been in limbo since May 7th. The ESCs on the new drone were good, but the right vision camera was toast.

Long story short, I just finished frankensteining these two drones together, and got a fully functioning drone with no errors except the gimbal/camera.

A few of you mentioned you wouldn't trust a glued arm, I'd like to test this thing out tomorrow, would you trust it just for hovering and some basic movement?

 

[Rnl]

To test should be fine, but I’ve tried different glues and haven’t found a good one yet. Legs are cheap look on ebay

 

[Starz]

Hover would be fine. ??

 

[Platinum 4 ever]

Hover would be fine. ??

Just what you to know that what you did for this gentleman. Just proves that there are still good people out there. [emoji106]

 

[Starz]

Thanks. I try. Sometimes the gray matter is efficient.

 

[p2k]

Happy to report we have lift off!

Everything appears to be working perfectly. Vision sensors, controls etc...
I havent shown my son yet, i wanted to make sure it didnt blow up.
Now that its functional and being in Canada, I registered the Drone yesterday, and got my Basic SRPA Pilot licence.
Ive seen a lot of crashed drone stories, with broken ribbon cables and gimbals, but I havent read many stories about the camera itself. Mine appears to be undamaged, and was wondering if they are generally pretty robust? I might spring for a new gimbal assembly.

 

[Starz]

I’m not the camera repair expert. Could be just a bad connection. There will be some really small pieces to that puzzle. Maybe some YouTube vids?
Good that it flys for all the effort you’ve put into it!
Thanks for all the updates!

 

[Curve9090]

Update .. Update !!!!

 

[Platinum 4 ever]

Happy to report we have lift off!
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Everything appears to be working perfectly. Vision sensors, controls etc...
I havent shown my son yet, i wanted to make sure it didnt blow up.
Now that its functional and being in Canada, I registered the Drone yesterday, and got my Basic SRPA Pilot licence.
Ive seen a lot of crashed drone stories, with broken ribbon cables and gimbals, but I havent read many stories about the camera itself. Mine appears to be undamaged, and was wondering if they are generally pretty robust? I might spring for a new gimbal assembly.

Good job [emoji122][emoji106]

 

[p2k]

My camera parts from aliexpress came last friday, a new dampening board, camera video cable and gimbal ribbon cable.

It took me a long time to reassemble it, PRO tip dont use hot glue to hold down the gimbal ribbon cable, I think when it shrinks it pulls the connect out of place. It kept working without glue, and the moment i glue it down it stops working.

Here is a screen shot of my first video.

I had not figured out how to adjust the roll at the time.

 

[Flycaster]

There is a setting in the camera menu for camera tilt...