Brushless Gimbal

[Seeker]

Hi Everyone,

I recently brought my first quad, a Twister Quattro X, with 2 axis gimbal and FPV. I took it for a test flight and enjoyed the experience of flying a quad for the first time. All was going well till one of the prop nuts flew off and the quad crashed to the ground. Upon impact the land gear and gimbal were damaged.

Now some people would argue that the prop nut falling off is my fault, I would argue that all the nuts were tighten to the maximum pressure and the nut design is the issue (I would like to confirm if everyone is using nylock nuts instead of the standard cone type?), either way I am left with a $220 damaged gimbal. One of the axis doesn't respond due to the wiring coming off at the solder point on the motherboard.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is it fixable? Can it just be re-soldered?

Many thanks in advance, it was a disappointing first flight and wrecked my confidence in the quad (why would a prop nut just fly off, will this happen again?)

Cheers from Australia.

 

[holtneil]

Hi mate cone nuts coming off does happen they need to be very very tight but most remove and fit nylock nuts , I would try and fix the gimbal first , the 3 wires are power, earth, and signal , your have to find out what goes where the power is the important as if you get this wrong you will burn the board ,now the servo wires are normally red live , brown or black earth, and the light coloured one is signal this can be lots of different colours but it is always the light colour wire of the 3 just solder back on in the right place
We all crash its part of learning and does cost i hope you get it fixed

 

[Seeker]

Thanks for the reply HN,

I have been to the bolt shop and bought standard m6 nyloc nuts, but the store didn't have CCW nyloc's. Is there anywhere to buy these? Or what is the work around?

 

[holtneil]

if your spinners are cw and ccw you have them on the wrong motors thats why they came off