Hi all, I'm new to the SparkPilots forum but have been flying Sparks for a few years now. I have had a number of exceptionally unlucky flight events that have ended up in crashes and I'm now on my 3rd Spark. I finally got inspired to watch a ton of videos on repairs and am pretty good and tearing down and reassembling my Spark but the Camera + Gimbal assembly, which seems to bear the brunt of most of the crashes is remarkably sensitive. I bought a brand new OEM replacement pair of the camera and gimbal, the assembly went quite well but when I used the gimbal tilt wheel on the RC to lower the gimbal until it was facing down, it get's stuck every time, causing a gimbal overload button. I did recalibration attempts of the gimbal using the calibration tool in the o-gs/dji-firmware-tools toolkit but in the exercises where it is calibrating the gimbal ( JointCoarse & LinearHall), any time the gimbal was rotated all of the way down, it would again get stuck and the calibration would fail. I did some experimenting by holding the Spark upside down while doing the calibration and that seems to have upset the gimbal so that now it is shuddering and shaking when being used.
I may have damaged the gimbal by trying to get it properly calibrated but I didn't expect it would be so sensitive or challenging after the replacement.
Before I start over and order yet another camera+gimbal assembly or even a new Spark, any words of experience from other DIYers who may have successfully replaced their camera+gimbals?
Thanks a lot,
Rick
I may have damaged the gimbal by trying to get it properly calibrated but I didn't expect it would be so sensitive or challenging after the replacement.
Before I start over and order yet another camera+gimbal assembly or even a new Spark, any words of experience from other DIYers who may have successfully replaced their camera+gimbals?
Thanks a lot,
Rick