DJI FPV Drone Repair Tutorial for Broken Front or Back Arm. I Crashed my Drone and fixed it!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 พ.ค. 2021
- In This 4k video I walk you through a step by step tutorial on repairing your DJI FPV Drone if you crashed it and broke a front or back arm. I crashed mine into some power lines. I did not have DJI Refresh so I figured that there was nothing to lose by ordering a $26 dollar arm of Amazon and trying to repair it myself. It took me quite a few hours as I took my time, labeled parts and screws and took lots of pictures which all saved my bacon in the end! I hope that this tutorial helps someone else save some money but understand that I am NOT a pro and you do so at your own risk.
Link to Front right Arm on Amazon: FPV Front Right Arm Landing Gear for DJI FPV Drone Repair Spare Parts by runchicken (Front Right)
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Let me know if this tutorial was helpful to you..
It was helpfull but you make it look easier than it is., haha I couldn't remove the plate where the vision sensors cable enters the body of the drone. Managed to unclip its sides from the front legs but it was still firmly held in place and I was afraid to force it too much. I get a "vision system connection error " in my goggles so I think it is that side of the cable that is disconnected.
@Simeon Valenti glad you were able to figure it out!
Did the flight simulator for 20 hours or so. Crashed the drone after my 2nd flight lol Thank you for positing this fix. It helps a lot.
Sorry about your crash! Happy to hear that my video helped!
So much disassembly to get to the arm. Pretty intimidating work. Great Job Sir!
Thank you! It's not too bad once you have done it..
Not that bad really
Troncat does a superb job of this with explanation along the way.
Very nice
Man that is so much work to replace an arm! Maybe consider trying a carbon fibre freestyle style of drone, so much stronger, and also much easier to change an arm, typically two screws and three wires.
Very true.. the dji fov drone is pretty sweet though.
Very nicely done.
Thank you sir!
Watched whole thing first, now time to do the hard work with you working right beside me, I'll stop it as I go. This is probably the best how to video I have ever seen, you cover from beginning to end! Thank you.
Oh man thanks! I really hope it is a help to ya!
See the Troncat video. He does a superb job with explanation along the way. much better
I got to hand it to you man!,you tore right in to it and got it done👍.Getting prepared to fix my front arm,watched the whole vid,thanks for the help.
I didn't realize you had broke it?
Yeah, it’s our unit that William accidentally pushed the motor stop button on and it fell. I’ve been nervous about getting it fixed, but I’ve got it in my head now, I’m feeling good about it.
@@josephdaulton3726 it will be simple for you.
Super helpful! Thanks for posting. Way faster and easier than sending it in. Appreciate it!
Awesome glad it was helpful!
Great video thanks. Although it might lead me to start taking more risks with my new drone knowing that I can actually fix a broken arm.
With risk comes reward! Haha thanks!
Complete success! Thank you Up North Fpv. Barely slid out back arm, pulled rear antenna wire off antenna connection, but it crimped right back on easily. Took about 3 hours total taking my time with labeling and pictures. Probably 1 to 1.5 hrs next time. Yes...I said next time.
Oh man thanks for letting me know how it went! You were 2 hours faster than me! Haha "next time" sad but probably true for me too..
3 Hours! Poor guys, its about three minutes, on a typical freestyle carbon fibre build .
Thanks for sharing. that can help out alot of people.
Thanks for dropping by!
Good Job Mate ! :)
Thank you!
thanks to this video my simple broken wing was a cinch, sorry chinese repair worker no won ton soup tonight.
Haha thanks!
Going to repair mine tonight. Thanks for the content it should be really helpful
Feel free to ask any questions if there's anything I need to clarify and good luck!
@@upnorthFPVandEUC My friend helped me with the soldering 1 hour ago and it looks fine :) thanks a lot for your content. Subscriber well earned!
@@superdidom84 thank you for that! So glad you fixed it.
Yes this is very helpful thanks
Thank for letting me know Tony!
great work :) Probably be needing this video some day :) I have the same work mat as you as well :)
Thank you sir!
I knew I'd need this video soon :)
@@NOT_ANOTHER_FPV yeah.. the odds were against ya as much as your flying haha!
nice work dooder. Looks like you had the same issue I did. I had a HELL of a time getting the motor wires off the ESC. It took a ton of heat to get things to flow. Great work tho m8. Good on ya for not sending it back to Dji for that.
Thanks you!
Watching now. But should be like fixing any drone just arm comes with motors and leds attached already. Solder motor wire to esc (switch wires if spins wrong direction I guess) solder led wires. Screw arm on.
Just it cost a lot more than my $4 arm and $15 motor and $0.50 racewire led
I have not broken anything on my DJI Drone - yet, but surely this will happen. So it ist nice to know where to look as soon as it happens.... :-). .. PS: the process when dealing with the arms reminds me of struggling with a lobster... ;-)
Thanks for posting ! I just bought one of these beasts and fear I might have to do this at some time in the future. DJI sure didn’t make it easy. You almost have to take the whole thing apart to just do ONE repair. ! It flew ok after ??
Thanks again.
Yes, it flew great!
I crashed my fpv got a little stupid with it. Anyway I didn’t use this vid but another one. I’ll say with no experience with building quads and very little soldering experience. With a little organization it went smoothly 3 hours about with a couple breaks it was back in the air. Had to swap two arms and the center frame. Pretty easy if your any kind of good with your hands totally fixable at home.
That's awesome and your right.. the most important part is getting a system to help remember where all those screws go.
You did a great job. I’m handy with tools and could do this, but it is a bit much. Do you think the brace they sell would’ve prevented the break?
Possibly but it ejected the battery and then fell to the ground from power line hight.
Why break one arm when you can break two? I had the braces on. If it crashes at slow speed most likely will help but i caught the left side of mine on a post ripped both arms right off. Actually broke not mounting spots for the legs right off the center frame.
Thank you!
I just know I’ll be needing a ton of spare parts now that I added the FPV Drone to my toy collection.
I already had a low battery “let me force land this on THE HIGHWAY” incident. 😳
Fortunately, it was “CCP Virus Low Traffic” time…. I was able to retrieve it unharmed.
I keep thinking it’s a Mavic 2 w/semi decent battery life.. compounded by the longer RC/RF range
of OccuSync 3.0 - it gets approximately 25-30% better range / distance over OccuSync 2.
You have a nice collection of videos and do great editing.
Thanks.
Thank you for dropping by and for the compliment! I know all about that low battery, let's force land on the highway feeling! Lucky for me I was able to take over control (my friends son was flying it) and force it off the highway by 10 feet! It was a busy highway with cars coming down the hill at 70 plus!
How hard was it to fish the wires for the new motor back through? Any special trick?
I had a minor crash in grass and one of my motors has bearing noise now so im probably looking at an eventual replacement.
The wires are no problem at all the biggest thing is just really take pictures and documents so you get the right screws back in the right place there is a gazillion of them! Good luck and feel free to reach out if you have any more questions.
Hello sr.
have a strange question here, Sorry for bothering again.
I had to change the left front motor of my Dji Fpv. The issue is that to do it correctly I also had to remove the rear left arm. When reassembling everything, I had the problem that the rear left arm antenna cable connector came out of the cable, the problem is that the rear left arm antenna is inside the arm and cannot be accessed (it is not on the foot of the arm as if they are on the front arms). Not having the necessary tool to crimping the antenna connector to the cable itself. So i was wondering if i could splice the cable with another antenna cable that i have and use that connector, if not i have to buy another rear arm and in mi country is really difficult to do. i hope that it is explained well. Have a nice day and thanks again.
It might be possible to splice The wire but I would just order a new cable. you will have to remove the rear arm and put the new antenna cable in it and then reinstall
@@upnorthFPVandEUC thing is that the antenna on rear arms are inside the arm itself, so you have to buy the whole arm that already come with the antenna connector :s thing is that to get in mi country is really difficult
I had to replace 2 arms and the main frame. But it was easier then i thought by using your video. Only problem i after i assembled the drone back together
and plugged the battery it just keeps rebooting over and over. My question to you is my batteries sit for 2 months while i got the parts , i charged them but noticed that i couldn't
read a voltage with the battery on. Which makes me think my problem is my batterys. If you guys have a meter do you see voltage at the plug connection? i dont.
Glad my video helped some. I'm not sure how to read smart batteries voltage..
I'm kind of hoping dji offers other battery sizes and prop choices
drone-works.com/aikon-dji-fpv-prop-adapter-mounts-4-adapters/
@@upnorthFPVandEUC wonder with that if biblades still make it more efficient.
It would be a nice Long Range drone. Good for 4miles
@@divingfalconfpv4602 That's a great question I haven't seen anybody do anything but tri blade so far
Is it possible to use the video transmitter standalone connected to a camera?
Do you mean use the goggles to view video without a drone?
No, I mean, is it possible to remove the video transmitter from inside the drone and use it stand alone or in a DIY drone? I know this is a hard one, I hadnt found any info...
@@joaovictorf.carvalho458 oh wow.. well I guess anything is possible.. way out of my league. Would be cool though..
I crashed my FPV last month . I send it to USA from Canada for repair . No DJI care . I paid $200 US for the repair , After one week when I got it back . The led light on front did not turn on . They ask me to send it back to fix . I decided not return and maybe I will try to replace one of the arm by myself . Hope your video will help , thanks
Wow Tony! I wondered what they would have charged me and now I know. Yeah it is really an easy fix. You might have just had on of the power leads to the leds pop out? If so no need to replace the arm. Good luck and let me know how it goes.
Where can I get the motor screws for under the motors
Probably from a hardware store.
Can anyone tell me what is the minimum amount of disassembly needed, if I only want to replace the vision sensors module and ribbon cable?
I think just follow my tutorial but don't unscrew any of the screws holding the front arms on
Where can I find those beats?
Epidemic sound
great I hopei dont need it,also because of spare parts...
Makes a tutorial in fast motion with no commentary ... Wow
Is that good or bad?
@@upnorthFPVandEUC it's good because you added text and flew through it instead of sitting there for one hours like other vids lol. I'm having trouble with the soldering part though I've never did it before. Everything else I got
When soldering you just put the metal rod on till soft and pull the wires? And vice versa. Also do you add more solder when resoldering thanks
@@jayboddie8718 thank you!
@@jayboddie8718 yes add Flux to it first and it will un- solder way faster. Also add more solder when putting back together. Good luck!
I just replaced my rear right leg but unfortunately the grey antenna cable broke out in the process. I already ordered another arm, but the drone still turns on fine. Do you think flying it with the antenna out is a risk? I feel like if it goes out of range it will just RTH but I'm not sure. Thanks
I think your right but seems better to not have to take it apart again??
@@upnorthFPVandEUC that’s my conflict haha I don’t want to resolder those pads too many times but don’t wanna risk a crash either
hi my dji fpv esc error
Sorry, I don’t know how to fix that
esc cleaned with a toothbrush its fixit @@upnorthFPVandEUC
Step 1 throw it away.
Step 2 buy a carbon framed fpv quad
That would be your choice to do. I love drones and this one is great for what it's good at. I love my carbon drones too. Thanks for dropping by!
@@upnorthFPVandEUC hell yea. I love it as well and will never throw this away. People think if you crash this drone then that’s it while not true. Parts are out there you just have to search good.
@@yondel-kttkoh3948 very true! Mine survived a good crash today! Thanks for dropping by!
Step 3 Block "Tony Hoffman" so we don't have to read his useless comments anymore.