Howdy everyone!
A friend of mine recently gave me an Anafi that had been crashed, it damaged both left arms, as well as shorted something out in the gimbal or possibly just the wire, the connector is visibly damaged.
Anyway, I have repaired some things, got new connector for one of the motor wires that had shattered and turned the wires loose.
I got a new connector for the gimbal ribbon cable but even after removing the old connector and replacing the new one, either the heat from the hot air rework gun or the cable was damaged before, as the gimbal still just twitches and whines a bit.
Camera works A-ok but is lopsided due to the gimbal.
Drone flies and lands properly, I do want to replace both broken arms before I fly it much, but it lifts off and everything seems fine other than the gimbal and arms at this point.
I'm looking forward to locating parts, and hopefully getting this thing back fully functioning!
And then I'll be looking into everything I can do with it.
I'm a mechanic by trade but enjoy electronics, I've built my own circuits and done a small amount of coding to get things working. I built an add-on for the driveway alert system we have that sends an email so if we aren't home I get an email on my phone that someone is in the driveway, I can pull up and see a video feed of it.
Doubtful I'll be using the drone for much related to my business, but it'll be fun, I'm thinking I can work it in to get some neat shots for youtube or something too!
I'll post over in the classifieds so everything stays on topic, but I wanted to introduce myself and my "new" drone.
If anyone needs motor connectors, I've tracked down what kind they are, and where to get them from, as well as the gimbal motor ribbon cable, although I wouldn't highly recommend try replacing that one.
Thanks a ton everyone!
A friend of mine recently gave me an Anafi that had been crashed, it damaged both left arms, as well as shorted something out in the gimbal or possibly just the wire, the connector is visibly damaged.
Anyway, I have repaired some things, got new connector for one of the motor wires that had shattered and turned the wires loose.
I got a new connector for the gimbal ribbon cable but even after removing the old connector and replacing the new one, either the heat from the hot air rework gun or the cable was damaged before, as the gimbal still just twitches and whines a bit.
Camera works A-ok but is lopsided due to the gimbal.
Drone flies and lands properly, I do want to replace both broken arms before I fly it much, but it lifts off and everything seems fine other than the gimbal and arms at this point.
I'm looking forward to locating parts, and hopefully getting this thing back fully functioning!
And then I'll be looking into everything I can do with it.
I'm a mechanic by trade but enjoy electronics, I've built my own circuits and done a small amount of coding to get things working. I built an add-on for the driveway alert system we have that sends an email so if we aren't home I get an email on my phone that someone is in the driveway, I can pull up and see a video feed of it.
Doubtful I'll be using the drone for much related to my business, but it'll be fun, I'm thinking I can work it in to get some neat shots for youtube or something too!
I'll post over in the classifieds so everything stays on topic, but I wanted to introduce myself and my "new" drone.
If anyone needs motor connectors, I've tracked down what kind they are, and where to get them from, as well as the gimbal motor ribbon cable, although I wouldn't highly recommend try replacing that one.
Thanks a ton everyone!