NorWiscPilot
Premium Pilot
I'm calling BS on beeps of death. There is no such thing. You can be bricked out but it's not dead. Drone death is silence. If there is any kind of beep then there is always hope and not despair. The first instinct after any crash of any RC product is to see if it still initializes. That can be a bad plan sometimes as crashes cause internal shorts and then switching on finally fries the bad component. ESC can short out when a motor suddenly stops or reverses in a crash. Motherboards can loose their ability to use the power switch (350 was notorious for this problem) but still function, motors develop dead points where it works but is spinning roughly and throwing all the others out and sucking power, and a whole host of problems that you learn the hard way.
My point is the TH has lots of features that help you escape these problems like it's impossible to accidentally power up with reverse voltage due to the battery design, or how the landing gear switch can be in the up position at take off and it's ignored till you reset. I'm tired of mistaken mythology spread by pilots who are ignorant of the operating system and immediately go to some grand problem rather than what they are doing. I'm not saying that's you but seriously beeps of death does not exist and the threads were folks go straight to blaming the H are generally from less experienced owners. Please don't take it personally and happy flying!!!
Hi again, Craig!
Not taking anything personally since I had nothing in this conversation. I just wanted to be sure I was following the conversation correctly. As I said, you made some very valid points, and your follow-up clarifies them even better.
I agree with you completely. Everyone needs to research, learn, and understand the workings of things and do their best to "report" their experiences correctly without unwarranted imbellishments. When it happens, and it will continue to happen, those who know should stand up and set things right so as not to perpetuate the false impressions.
Thanks for doing so, and thanks again for letting me (and others) know exactly what was incorrect.
Most sincerely,
Jeff