Okay, so I was experimenting with recording video by having the Typhoon travel down a private gravel road on heavily wooded private property. At the end of my run, about 500 feet away, I turned the camera around, and then proceeded to try to fly the Typhoon back to where I was at.
There were lots of elevation changes, so I was trying to lower the Typhoon, but apparently my pulling back on the left stick also included a left or right vector and the copter rotated slightly. Being about 500 feet away and slightly higher than the drone, I couldn't see the lights on the drone to determine how it was oriented. I pulled back on the right stick and promptly flew it into a pine tree, breaking 3 propellers, and dropping the Typhoon into some heavy brush. I throttled down and pressed the red kill switch, but it took a while for the Typhoon to shut down.
When I got to the machine it was right side up, in the brush, but the camera had made contact with the ground, and bent the main gimbal arm. I've ordered a replacement part and I tried to straighten the arm with fairly decent success....
HOWEVER....now the gimbal buzzes and vibrates unless I physically apply pressure to it...so, I'm guessing that the bent arm is causing a misalignment that the gimbal is trying to correct with small movements.
At worst case scenario, I figure I'll have to buy a new camera, though I'm going to take a run at fixing the gimbal.
Anybody have any insight, good or bad, into the buzzing and vibrating?
Also, I can't get a GPS lock on the machine. It's stuck in "acquiring" mode. The GPS is showing disabled, and I can't get it to enable. I've turned off GPS and gotten the motors to arm and spin up. However, after a minute or so, one of the motors will stop spinning and I get an error message about switching to Five motor mode and setting it down. I've tried this on multiple occasions and though the motors stop, it's never the same one.
I've hooked the machine up to the Yuneec GUI and I can spin all the motors without incident. The camera binds and is controllable, other than the vibration and buzzing.
What might be causing the GPS Disabled issue? What might be causing the Five rotor error?
Also, as an aside. I loved the ST-16. Is it possible to use it with non Yuneec aircraft??
There were lots of elevation changes, so I was trying to lower the Typhoon, but apparently my pulling back on the left stick also included a left or right vector and the copter rotated slightly. Being about 500 feet away and slightly higher than the drone, I couldn't see the lights on the drone to determine how it was oriented. I pulled back on the right stick and promptly flew it into a pine tree, breaking 3 propellers, and dropping the Typhoon into some heavy brush. I throttled down and pressed the red kill switch, but it took a while for the Typhoon to shut down.
When I got to the machine it was right side up, in the brush, but the camera had made contact with the ground, and bent the main gimbal arm. I've ordered a replacement part and I tried to straighten the arm with fairly decent success....
HOWEVER....now the gimbal buzzes and vibrates unless I physically apply pressure to it...so, I'm guessing that the bent arm is causing a misalignment that the gimbal is trying to correct with small movements.
At worst case scenario, I figure I'll have to buy a new camera, though I'm going to take a run at fixing the gimbal.
Anybody have any insight, good or bad, into the buzzing and vibrating?
Also, I can't get a GPS lock on the machine. It's stuck in "acquiring" mode. The GPS is showing disabled, and I can't get it to enable. I've turned off GPS and gotten the motors to arm and spin up. However, after a minute or so, one of the motors will stop spinning and I get an error message about switching to Five motor mode and setting it down. I've tried this on multiple occasions and though the motors stop, it's never the same one.
I've hooked the machine up to the Yuneec GUI and I can spin all the motors without incident. The camera binds and is controllable, other than the vibration and buzzing.
What might be causing the GPS Disabled issue? What might be causing the Five rotor error?
Also, as an aside. I loved the ST-16. Is it possible to use it with non Yuneec aircraft??
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