I see a lot of heat on new solo owners around here from time to time.
I want to preface by saying this is my second solo and I'm pretty familiar with building copters. I have 2 other pixhawk controlled aircraft that I've built. That being said, I still can't interpret crap from the logs. I've never had much reason to I guess.
I originally got rid of my first solo when they were first coming out and I got a really good trade on a pixhawk tarot Hex. Otherwise I would have kept it. It was one of those where the trade was way in my favor. I thought I'd always pick up another solo later.
Once I saw they were down to $400, I jumped on one about a week ago.
That day I took it out for a flight and it was fine.
Today I went out and tried to do a "follow me" and it wouldn't talk to the gps on my tablet. I landed and when I spun it back up, one motor didn't spin. I turned it off and back on and that seemed to have worked. Everything seemed ok.
Well, it apparently wasn't. I went up to about the height of the trees in my yard, maybe 50ft? Out of nowhere it got silent and fell straight down, powerless into the street and broke everything on it. Shell, battery, gimbal, 2 motors are bent and won't turn by hand without serious pressure. If it were a car, I'd call it totalled.
I played back the log and to my untrained eye, it looks like it had a bad gps signal??
I've attached the log. Can someone please have a look and tell me what it looks like happened?
What's the support system like these days? Will I be able to get anything done through 3dr? If so, how long does that take? I don't imagine I can walk in to best buy with a pile of parts and ask for an exchange?
I'm down in the dumps, but I have high hopes the logs will show what happened and I'll get it fixed or replaced for nothing.
Thanks!
I want to preface by saying this is my second solo and I'm pretty familiar with building copters. I have 2 other pixhawk controlled aircraft that I've built. That being said, I still can't interpret crap from the logs. I've never had much reason to I guess.
I originally got rid of my first solo when they were first coming out and I got a really good trade on a pixhawk tarot Hex. Otherwise I would have kept it. It was one of those where the trade was way in my favor. I thought I'd always pick up another solo later.
Once I saw they were down to $400, I jumped on one about a week ago.
That day I took it out for a flight and it was fine.
Today I went out and tried to do a "follow me" and it wouldn't talk to the gps on my tablet. I landed and when I spun it back up, one motor didn't spin. I turned it off and back on and that seemed to have worked. Everything seemed ok.
Well, it apparently wasn't. I went up to about the height of the trees in my yard, maybe 50ft? Out of nowhere it got silent and fell straight down, powerless into the street and broke everything on it. Shell, battery, gimbal, 2 motors are bent and won't turn by hand without serious pressure. If it were a car, I'd call it totalled.
I played back the log and to my untrained eye, it looks like it had a bad gps signal??
I've attached the log. Can someone please have a look and tell me what it looks like happened?
What's the support system like these days? Will I be able to get anything done through 3dr? If so, how long does that take? I don't imagine I can walk in to best buy with a pile of parts and ask for an exchange?
I'm down in the dumps, but I have high hopes the logs will show what happened and I'll get it fixed or replaced for nothing.
Thanks!