Hi all, my Inspire 1 had two crashes about six weeks ago, a couple of days apart. The second crash was its final hurrah and it is now in memorium. I know it's gone, I wasn't really upset but were baffled. I don't know why it did it or if I can recover any data from it as now when I turn it on it smokes. I'll describe the crashes and maybe someone can shed some light on it!
Crash One:
Following doing a ECU calibration it had just taken off in a courtyard at home where I have flown it many times, and was hovering about 6ft off the ground. The craft was staying nicely in place with no input from the sticks. I touched an area of the screen where I wanted the exposure to be read and automatically adjusted for. The craft flipped over 180 degrees to upside down, then slammed into the ground. Busted some blades, all seemed ok, other than leaving me scratching my head as to what I touched on the screen to give it such a command.
Crash Two: Grand Finale
Day later than first crash. Concerned about the first crash I flew through two or three batteries, was on my third or fourth battery. No probems with flights, was functioning as normal. Hovering at about twice the height of my two storey house, just holding position when the drones motors made three distinct separate sounds one after the other: ffff ffff ffff. Then it fell out of the sky. It came down like Thors Hammer and smashed into my roof, which is steep pitched. It punched out a number of terracotta tiles, then tumbled down the slope of the roof, off the edge, and as a final insult dropped the last 10 ft to the driveway and smashed some more. Somewhat distressing to watch, and from the moment the motors gave their three spits of revs I had been relegated to the position of spectator. As it fell don't think any motors were running anymore.
All four batteries have some mileage on them, had been charged between 60 and 80 times each and were down to approx. half their original Mah capacity when at 100% charge.
I wasn't recording any footage at the time of either crash.
Has anyone experienced the three noises from the motor/s before? It was like the motors stopped and started three times in really quick succession, over about a second and a half before stopping altogether.
The amazing footnote to all this is the X3 camera and its sorry looking gimbal still works. This morning I tried it out on its Osmo, thinking the X3 will be stuffed, and found it records to the card and sends wifi signal to my phone still. Despite the X3's housing being so bent so that I had to stretch it out again with big pliers to be able to get the micro sd card out of it, and a chunk of a gimbal axis cover is gone and there's is a piece of the metal body ripped off.
What an amazingly tough camera!
Crash One:
Following doing a ECU calibration it had just taken off in a courtyard at home where I have flown it many times, and was hovering about 6ft off the ground. The craft was staying nicely in place with no input from the sticks. I touched an area of the screen where I wanted the exposure to be read and automatically adjusted for. The craft flipped over 180 degrees to upside down, then slammed into the ground. Busted some blades, all seemed ok, other than leaving me scratching my head as to what I touched on the screen to give it such a command.
Crash Two: Grand Finale
Day later than first crash. Concerned about the first crash I flew through two or three batteries, was on my third or fourth battery. No probems with flights, was functioning as normal. Hovering at about twice the height of my two storey house, just holding position when the drones motors made three distinct separate sounds one after the other: ffff ffff ffff. Then it fell out of the sky. It came down like Thors Hammer and smashed into my roof, which is steep pitched. It punched out a number of terracotta tiles, then tumbled down the slope of the roof, off the edge, and as a final insult dropped the last 10 ft to the driveway and smashed some more. Somewhat distressing to watch, and from the moment the motors gave their three spits of revs I had been relegated to the position of spectator. As it fell don't think any motors were running anymore.
All four batteries have some mileage on them, had been charged between 60 and 80 times each and were down to approx. half their original Mah capacity when at 100% charge.
I wasn't recording any footage at the time of either crash.
Has anyone experienced the three noises from the motor/s before? It was like the motors stopped and started three times in really quick succession, over about a second and a half before stopping altogether.
The amazing footnote to all this is the X3 camera and its sorry looking gimbal still works. This morning I tried it out on its Osmo, thinking the X3 will be stuffed, and found it records to the card and sends wifi signal to my phone still. Despite the X3's housing being so bent so that I had to stretch it out again with big pliers to be able to get the micro sd card out of it, and a chunk of a gimbal axis cover is gone and there's is a piece of the metal body ripped off.
What an amazingly tough camera!
it sound to me that you burned up the ESC's somehow. I've had it happen to me on one of my RC planes before, not one of my drones yet... knock on wood. The ESC that went out on my airplane actually caught fire on the way down.
