I'm super geeked i finally managed to fix the gimbal on the q500 now it actually moves up and down like it suppose to
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FlushVision
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Nothing wrong with being geeked. Being able to fix anything technical when you are not an expert in whatever field it is is always a good reason to be proud.
Back in early 2015 I crashed a P2V into a short bush on the top of a hill. I had been conducting a photographic survey and the flight was a way-point mission. Unfortunately I had miss judged a height towards the end of the mission so it crashed into the only bush in sight. Totally my fault. I thought the aircraft was beyond reasonable repair since the motors had got so hot that they melted the shell arms, and damaged the electronics...so I bought a new P2V+. A few weeks later that one crashed too...flew away into a tree and not my fault. It was then that I decided to try my hand on repairing the first one while the P2V+ was off for warranty repair.
There followed a steep learning curve in electronics, soldering and other stuff. In the space of a week I went from knowing nothing about how these things work to the point that I had completely rebuilt and refurbished a drone to the point that it flew even better than it did before the crash. I was so proud that I dripped with proudness. I had succeeded in repairing a badly crashed drone...I could do it!
Here is a picture of that crashed drone taken during the repair process.
DCH
Dr. FrankenPhoon
Sure, after a crash the three wires ripped from the gimbal to hot shoe, directly beside where you plug in the piggy back cable there was a burnt chip, after some research i found this chip was basically a fuse so I de-soldered it and simply bridged the space by soldering a copper wire in its place, i then removed the existing ripped wires by de-soldering from board then plugged in piggy back to gimbal then slid it onto hotshoe then plugged othe end of piggy back cable into drone itself and boom.
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