Not having any luck on searches and hope someone can help me out on this....
3 weeks ago I flew my drone straight away from me and it went 300 ft and stopped in mid air over a canyon. Moving the controls did nothing, tho' camera was still working. I do have a YouTube video from the CG02+ camera to show if necessary. After about 20 seconds the Q500+ moved a bit, then started to drop. Rotors were still turning so it wasn't a complete free fall, but it fell about 50 ft and landed hard. Broke the body shells up some and after fussing with it some, (crazy glue works very well for smaller cracks. The solvent in it melts the plastic and it fuses together) I finally decided to replace the body.
I purchased a new body ***'y for my Q500+ from Carolina Drones and installed it myself. I was very careful to keep wires and motors bundled and labeled.....and nearly went crazy with the multitude of tiny screws. I do have the correct tools for this and a fairly high level of skill. But. My rusty skills took some honing but I did get the 3 motor wires to each corner unsoldered, de-soldered with flex, cleaned with alcohol and re-soldered and they look good.
When re-soldering the motor wires to the boards, I held the board between my fingers "fairly" near the connections to be sure I didn't cook the electronics near the terminals. (I did yelp a couple of times)
Finished today and hooked the gui to it and it shows a red light in lower left corner on computer screen and says "Disconnected." No functions work on gui. The 2 rear corner lights on the Q500+ are solid red. Left front corner is solid white and right front corner is flickering blue/purple. Lower center rear led blinks red, green, blue.
That was all without the controller turned on. When I went thru a normal pre-flight startup, I got the same colors on the corners, gps and CGO2+ showed good on controller and motors started as normal. I did Not try flying it.
I would much prefer to re-calibrate everything before I fly it but don't know what the corner light colors mean, found nothing with a search and no idea why gui won't connect. Any ideas would be appreciated. Lars.
3 weeks ago I flew my drone straight away from me and it went 300 ft and stopped in mid air over a canyon. Moving the controls did nothing, tho' camera was still working. I do have a YouTube video from the CG02+ camera to show if necessary. After about 20 seconds the Q500+ moved a bit, then started to drop. Rotors were still turning so it wasn't a complete free fall, but it fell about 50 ft and landed hard. Broke the body shells up some and after fussing with it some, (crazy glue works very well for smaller cracks. The solvent in it melts the plastic and it fuses together) I finally decided to replace the body.
I purchased a new body ***'y for my Q500+ from Carolina Drones and installed it myself. I was very careful to keep wires and motors bundled and labeled.....and nearly went crazy with the multitude of tiny screws. I do have the correct tools for this and a fairly high level of skill. But. My rusty skills took some honing but I did get the 3 motor wires to each corner unsoldered, de-soldered with flex, cleaned with alcohol and re-soldered and they look good.
When re-soldering the motor wires to the boards, I held the board between my fingers "fairly" near the connections to be sure I didn't cook the electronics near the terminals. (I did yelp a couple of times)
Finished today and hooked the gui to it and it shows a red light in lower left corner on computer screen and says "Disconnected." No functions work on gui. The 2 rear corner lights on the Q500+ are solid red. Left front corner is solid white and right front corner is flickering blue/purple. Lower center rear led blinks red, green, blue.
That was all without the controller turned on. When I went thru a normal pre-flight startup, I got the same colors on the corners, gps and CGO2+ showed good on controller and motors started as normal. I did Not try flying it.
I would much prefer to re-calibrate everything before I fly it but don't know what the corner light colors mean, found nothing with a search and no idea why gui won't connect. Any ideas would be appreciated. Lars.