Following a crash in damaged my gimbal and 3DR came to the conclusion it was pilot error. So did I really. I purchased another Gimbal off eBay; a risk I know but willing to take for almost 50% less than local Oz retailers. It appears brand new so I was psyched. Received it yesterday and true to their word it looked genuinely new.
Fitted it with bated breath, aaaaand this one creates a buzzing sound at 90 degrees; tilting less then 70, buzzing disappears. Um, so I removed it, and checked all wires, positioning them better and reassembled. Yessss, no buzzing. Then a minute later, it returned noooo. So I reattempted this several times, including several level recalibrations. Um, I thought, is it a weight problem, nope, not that, correct weights attached. Noted the HDMI cable sticking out a bit from the GoPro, maybe this was causing an imbalance, so I pushed it in as far as it would go. No joy. Then noted a loss of video feed now.
After messing around for 5 mins or so I decided to remove the GoPro to make some adjustments. I nearly cried when I saw the HDMI port on the GoPro had dislodged from the PCB in the GoPro. Can this get any worse?
I now have a noisey Gimbal and a useless GoPro. I've had this GoPro for many years (its a Hero 3+ Black) and it has never let me down and I've never felt the need to upgrade.
I've read so many threads complaining about the gimbal, and wish 3DR put more R&D into it before they released it.
So all I have now is a flying paper weight with no financial means to replace the GoPro and get the Gimbal replaced or repaired.
I've only had solo for less than two months. When it worked, it worked great but now it's going to sit collecting dust. Think I might have to cut my loses and sell
Fitted it with bated breath, aaaaand this one creates a buzzing sound at 90 degrees; tilting less then 70, buzzing disappears. Um, so I removed it, and checked all wires, positioning them better and reassembled. Yessss, no buzzing. Then a minute later, it returned noooo. So I reattempted this several times, including several level recalibrations. Um, I thought, is it a weight problem, nope, not that, correct weights attached. Noted the HDMI cable sticking out a bit from the GoPro, maybe this was causing an imbalance, so I pushed it in as far as it would go. No joy. Then noted a loss of video feed now.
After messing around for 5 mins or so I decided to remove the GoPro to make some adjustments. I nearly cried when I saw the HDMI port on the GoPro had dislodged from the PCB in the GoPro. Can this get any worse?
I now have a noisey Gimbal and a useless GoPro. I've had this GoPro for many years (its a Hero 3+ Black) and it has never let me down and I've never felt the need to upgrade.
I've read so many threads complaining about the gimbal, and wish 3DR put more R&D into it before they released it.
So all I have now is a flying paper weight with no financial means to replace the GoPro and get the Gimbal replaced or repaired.
I've only had solo for less than two months. When it worked, it worked great but now it's going to sit collecting dust. Think I might have to cut my loses and sell
