Recent content by Ruckusman

That invoice is seriously loaded as you've already noted - they know what they're doing and they know that we know and couldn't care less - it's a very exploitive business model

I have yet another X5 broken in the same place, which occurred with the camera on the Osmo handle. This breakage is not the result of a crash on the inspire, so I would say that the problem remains unresolved

Does anyone know of a source for the upper yaw axis motor assembly? I used to have these guys bookmarked, just checked today and the product has changed as well as the price - now the listing is an X3 yaw axis motor... WM610 YAW axis motor

I wouldn't anticipate better quality components on the gimbals, design material selection errors have been prevalent since the Phantom 2 Vision series, the P3 gimbals share related issues and we go round the mulberry bush...

the small nut that you removed or turned on the yaw axis motor has a small magnet at it's centre, this determines the neutral location for that axis, so disassemble the parts to get access to that nut and turn it the appropriate amount to correct the direction

OK so from the sounds of it, the gimbal at least may have been recycled and re-sold as new, where that occurred is impossible to say and just speculation. I'd be happy the retailer has accepted it back for warranty repair and leave it at that, however when I was working at a store it wasn't...

how new and purchased directly from DJI? If you've got flight logs which show you've never used it, or that it's never been crashed - you may have a defensible position for warranty repair, but that will consume valuable time getting that past DJI. Only conceivable reason I can tender for it...

Others will be able to chime in with their repair costs, however at the shop where I worked, before I resigned, the gimbals that went back for repair cost approximately $350 AUD.

take one of each apart and learn for yourself - you want to hang crap on others observations with no information of your own to contribute, that's how you acquire that information - learn by doing - all too easy

Seriously this is such a nonsense argument: When the necessary reinforcement &/or stronger heavier alloy would amount to at most 30 grams, 1% of the crafts total weight, that would amount to 1% of flight time accordingly - a grand total of 6 seconds per 10 minutes. There is no increased...

Repairs and replacements are a supplementary income stream for DJI, however before I resigned my job, over 50% of the owners with broken gimbals had to purchase another one to be able to continue working whilst the repair was conducted. Whether the weakness is deliberate or poor design and...

you'd think that would be the case, but the assembly doesn't work that way, the washer sits tight onto the motor shaft and the entire shaft rotates Any extra material has little space below the washer to fit into, it's a difficult assembly to strengthen, with the limiting factor being the...

support the gimbal plenty with good absorbent foam underneath. Same had to be done with the Vision Plus in fight cases, plenty of those gimbals came out the other end of the carousel broken inside the hard Pelican style transport cases just from being thrown by the airline baggage handlers

There's no space below the washer to re-inforce anything because the washer needs to rotate freely, which is also of concern, because the washer doesn't distribute the load - and they end up broken...

well let's keep it in the headlines I am thinking it's perhaps time to launch a full social media campaign about this otherwise DJI is clearly just going to keep fobbing this issue off pretending it doesn't actually exist here's my most recent post on rcgroups OK having to push this issue to...