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Hello ladies and gentlemen, I find myself the operator of a Typhoon H Plus with the Intel Realsense option, and have replaced a couple arms that were busted in one fashion or another.
At this point, I'm under the assumption that the arm replacement has gone relatively successfully because it powers on, is communicating with the base station, and is growling at me. I will post a video of the Typhoon powering on (following up until this point the "recommended" procedure of letting the ground station boot, then powering on the drone) to show you all where I'm at right now.
Where do we go from here? It's telling me to perform a compass calibration, but not giving me the option, OBS Avoidance not available, it can't acquire GPS (it couldn't when it was functional and flying, either), and the indicator lamp is pulsing red while the drone itself is beeping in the manner you heard in the video.
If it is obvious that I have re-assembled the drone incorrectly, it is my first assumption, but after having perused what resources I've been able to find after about an hour of googling, there's no indication of where specifically my reassembly may have gone wrong. If the arms are hard-coded to the drone, that's the first stop. I replaced the 2 broken arms directly with arms from a donor drone bought on e-bay.
Please note, I am not a "newbie," just new to drones. My background is in manufacturing, most recently as a Quality Engineer, and I got my start with that job title at a PCB manufacturer working on plenty of things you all would love to hear about, most of which you don't have the clearance to hear about. Replacing components up to and including BGA is not out of the question, but usually when you've gotten as far as the equipment in question booting up and chirping at you, either a particular component can simply be replaced or plugged in, or you're not understanding what it's trying to tell you.
Did I mess up from the start by replacing the broken arms with arms from another drone? If not, what is it telling me to do?
At this point, I'm under the assumption that the arm replacement has gone relatively successfully because it powers on, is communicating with the base station, and is growling at me. I will post a video of the Typhoon powering on (following up until this point the "recommended" procedure of letting the ground station boot, then powering on the drone) to show you all where I'm at right now.
Where do we go from here? It's telling me to perform a compass calibration, but not giving me the option, OBS Avoidance not available, it can't acquire GPS (it couldn't when it was functional and flying, either), and the indicator lamp is pulsing red while the drone itself is beeping in the manner you heard in the video.
If it is obvious that I have re-assembled the drone incorrectly, it is my first assumption, but after having perused what resources I've been able to find after about an hour of googling, there's no indication of where specifically my reassembly may have gone wrong. If the arms are hard-coded to the drone, that's the first stop. I replaced the 2 broken arms directly with arms from a donor drone bought on e-bay.
Please note, I am not a "newbie," just new to drones. My background is in manufacturing, most recently as a Quality Engineer, and I got my start with that job title at a PCB manufacturer working on plenty of things you all would love to hear about, most of which you don't have the clearance to hear about. Replacing components up to and including BGA is not out of the question, but usually when you've gotten as far as the equipment in question booting up and chirping at you, either a particular component can simply be replaced or plugged in, or you're not understanding what it's trying to tell you.
Did I mess up from the start by replacing the broken arms with arms from another drone? If not, what is it telling me to do?
