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Last summer my YTH went haywire and crashed, embarrassingly in front of a client. Yuneec UK CS were superb, I returned it to them and they did some investigating and discovered a number of faults including a GPS sensor. Happily they agreed I wasn't at fault and replaced it free of charge. Really can't fault the CS.
Having been freaked by the incident my brand new YTH has sat unopened for the past 5 months.
Yesterday I plucked up the courage to get it out the box, adding a realsense module. I decided to fly it indoors to get the confidence it won't go crazy. Ensuring GPS was off, realsense enabled, in angle mode, and OBS off I took off. It happily hovered at 10 feet no problem, holding it's position perfectly for a couple of minutes, all lookd good. But then I lost video signal. Fearing the worse I brought it down and landed fine, and put the motors in to idle. After a few seconds I heard the motors rev up, and looked up to see it start to drift along the ground. I pulled down on the left stick to reduce the power, no response, so I hit the red kill switch, nothing, it then collided with the wall and shattered 3 props.
Figuring I'd try again to see if the problem was repeatable I replaced the props, checked the drone for other damage and all looked fine. Again I checked GPS was offf, realsense enabled, in angle mode and OBS off. This time I took off and IPS disappeared and the drone became erratic as it wasn't holding position, so I landed it. Once again a few seconds after putting the motors in to idle, it revved up and attempted to fly away. Luckily I was able to get a foot on the landing gear to stop it moving away. After a number of attempts the red kill switch finally worked.
Is this normal behaviour when flying indoors with the realsense module? Did I do something silly? I can't see what I could do when my hands are off the controller to make it rev up and try and take off again. Or have I got another faulty YTH. I'm too scared to take it outside, unless perhaps I put a tether on it.
I have zero confidence in ever flying a YTH again.
Having been freaked by the incident my brand new YTH has sat unopened for the past 5 months.
Yesterday I plucked up the courage to get it out the box, adding a realsense module. I decided to fly it indoors to get the confidence it won't go crazy. Ensuring GPS was off, realsense enabled, in angle mode, and OBS off I took off. It happily hovered at 10 feet no problem, holding it's position perfectly for a couple of minutes, all lookd good. But then I lost video signal. Fearing the worse I brought it down and landed fine, and put the motors in to idle. After a few seconds I heard the motors rev up, and looked up to see it start to drift along the ground. I pulled down on the left stick to reduce the power, no response, so I hit the red kill switch, nothing, it then collided with the wall and shattered 3 props.
Figuring I'd try again to see if the problem was repeatable I replaced the props, checked the drone for other damage and all looked fine. Again I checked GPS was offf, realsense enabled, in angle mode and OBS off. This time I took off and IPS disappeared and the drone became erratic as it wasn't holding position, so I landed it. Once again a few seconds after putting the motors in to idle, it revved up and attempted to fly away. Luckily I was able to get a foot on the landing gear to stop it moving away. After a number of attempts the red kill switch finally worked.
Is this normal behaviour when flying indoors with the realsense module? Did I do something silly? I can't see what I could do when my hands are off the controller to make it rev up and try and take off again. Or have I got another faulty YTH. I'm too scared to take it outside, unless perhaps I put a tether on it.
I have zero confidence in ever flying a YTH again.