Gimbal issues.

Avgjoe · Jun 11, 2019

Bought the th+ in dec 2018, have flown it about 5 times using build 784 and th+ worked flawlessly. Put it away for several weeks and when I got it out it had gimbal issues. When camera is pivoted upward, gimbal begins to chatter and if I continue to pivot camera upward, gimbal will begin to shake violently and then the gimbal goes limp and lets the camera drop to a downward pointing position with no control possible via the transmitter. Wondering if anyone has any ideas? I did update to the latest build yesterday and latest build did not resolve the issue. Thanks.

claudius62 · Jun 11, 2019

Have you tried to re-calibrate the gimbal.
This is what I do after the update.

Avgjoe · Jun 11, 2019

claudius62 said:
Have you tried to re-calibrate the gimbal.
This is what I do after the update.

Haven't tried that. How is that accomplished? thanks much

Avgjoe · Jun 11, 2019

Avgjoe said:
Haven't tried that. How is that accomplished? thanks much

I am at work. Will read through that part of the manual again. thanks so much for your input.

Ty Pilot · Jun 11, 2019

If you updated to the latest firmware, you will not be able to get into the calibration menus, all that you can do now is a compass calibration. Prior to the latest update, you could tap 'Compass Calibration' quickly five times and then this would bring up the full calibration menu but Yuneec decided to block user access to this feature with the last update. I recommend trying to roll back to 784 if possible. I believe there is a thread (maybe a sticky) in the 'How To' section on just how to do this.

The gimbal shakes that you are seeing is one of the small bugs that popped up after the first update last August and for some reason, Yuneec has not been able to remedy it.

Avgjoe · Jun 11, 2019

Ty Pilot said:
If you updated to the latest firmware, you will not be able to get into the calibration menus, all that you can do now is a compass calibration. Prior to the latest update, you could tap 'Compass Calibration' quickly five times and then this would bring up the full calibration menu but Yuneec decided to block user access to this feature with the last update. I recommend trying to roll back to 784 if possible. I believe there is a thread (maybe a sticky) in the 'How To' section on just how to do this.

The gimbal shakes that you are seeing is one of the small bugs that popped up after the first update last August and for some reason, Yuneec has not been able to remedy it.

Well it is still under warranty and already have a return label for KAV, so will send off the gimbal/camera combo for repair. Thanks all!