Patrick Mulvany
New Member
My Ominus was getting away from me the other day - a combination of wind, poor throttle control and 67 year old eyes. Having lost another one deep in the woods due to very similar circumstances,
I cleverly chopped the throttle short of the Magical Forest that Eats Drones. The good news is that it fell into my neighbor's yard...the bad news is that the part of the yard it smacked down onto from 50-75 feet of altitude was her concrete driveway. The Ominus looked good - no obvious damage. It was even sitting upright. But experience having shown me that such a smackdown usually rattled its little brain, and that I would have to unplug then reconnect the battery to wake it up. This time, NO GO!
Nothing I did could revive it...the quick-flashing rear LED seemed to indicate that it was bound, and ready to go, but no response at all from the motors.
..................................READ ON - THIS IS THE GOOD PART!!!!!!..........................................................
Please don't tell anybody, but I (gasp!) pulled out the Owner's Manual. Although they don't address it in the context of a crash, there is a section entitled "Recalibrating". On a whim - no, out of desparation, I decided to focus carefully on the procedure. Who knew that recalibrate is a euphamism for resurrect? After several attempts to push just the right sticks and buttons in just the right sequence, I heard some magic combinations of tones that to me sounded like, "Thank you good Sir, you have unlocked the gates of heaven! I am whole again!" Long and short of it, it worked. Even though that magic little circuit board is all solid state, it CAN be scrambled by impact. Probably the disruption is caused by massive amounts of data crashing the flash code at the moment of impact, and this Recalibration Procedure rearranges the ones and zeros to up/down/left right.
In any case, I think they ought to tell you that in case of a smackdown, this procedure is what you need to get flying again. Oh, did I mention that before I figured it out, I ordered a new e-board for $30.
As in most things these days, follow the money....
I cleverly chopped the throttle short of the Magical Forest that Eats Drones. The good news is that it fell into my neighbor's yard...the bad news is that the part of the yard it smacked down onto from 50-75 feet of altitude was her concrete driveway. The Ominus looked good - no obvious damage. It was even sitting upright. But experience having shown me that such a smackdown usually rattled its little brain, and that I would have to unplug then reconnect the battery to wake it up. This time, NO GO!
Nothing I did could revive it...the quick-flashing rear LED seemed to indicate that it was bound, and ready to go, but no response at all from the motors.
..................................READ ON - THIS IS THE GOOD PART!!!!!!..........................................................
Please don't tell anybody, but I (gasp!) pulled out the Owner's Manual. Although they don't address it in the context of a crash, there is a section entitled "Recalibrating". On a whim - no, out of desparation, I decided to focus carefully on the procedure. Who knew that recalibrate is a euphamism for resurrect? After several attempts to push just the right sticks and buttons in just the right sequence, I heard some magic combinations of tones that to me sounded like, "Thank you good Sir, you have unlocked the gates of heaven! I am whole again!" Long and short of it, it worked. Even though that magic little circuit board is all solid state, it CAN be scrambled by impact. Probably the disruption is caused by massive amounts of data crashing the flash code at the moment of impact, and this Recalibration Procedure rearranges the ones and zeros to up/down/left right.
In any case, I think they ought to tell you that in case of a smackdown, this procedure is what you need to get flying again. Oh, did I mention that before I figured it out, I ordered a new e-board for $30.
As in most things these days, follow the money....
