Many thanks. Had precisely the same issues with a drone I bought from a user who crashed it: torn flex cable and disconnected pitch motor. Your step-by-step instructions worked perfectly, epoxy and all!
Thanks for this awesome tutorial. This tutorial finally helped me in repairing my gimbal. I had already tried several times without succes but the level of detail in your tutorial finally did it. Thank you for making and posting. It is the best tutorial i have found about this subject yet.
Greatly appreciate this video tutorial. My Vision+ had exactly the same damage - gimbal separated on the roll axis tearing the cable - but no damage to the pitch axis. Tedious work due to the size but the repair worked perfectly saving me $600 for a replacement camera.
Thank you for the very good video material for drone repair. I did it for the first time and I am very happy because the video system works. Thanks again - best regards
Neco Alert, but this video was a big help. Tip for others, get some plumbers putty or almost any putty and use it as a base for the part to keep it from moving around on the table.
thanks man; I crashed my drone on the first day I got it, the gimbal fell apart, tore the flex cable and was a huge pain in my butt! now after over a month I had the stones for an attempt on replacing the cable with the help of your video. it took me about 7 hours cause I didn't want to break anything else, but now it works again just fine and I'm over the moon!! thanks so much!
Similar situation, just got my drone and crashed it today. The camera separated from the gimble and tore the flex wire. Ordered a set off of eBay so i hope i can get them installed and everything works good. Tried turning it on for the hell of it after i crashed it and the camera was just going crazy up down sideways. so hopefully this fixes my problems. I am just gonna follow the steps in this video.
Excellent video,many thanks. I hope I never have to do this, but I think I am now confident enough to tackle this repair. I have fitted aftermarket protectors,why does DJI not do this? I fly my Phantom very conservatively, largely due to fear of gimbal damage, I may now be a bit(only a bit) more adventurous. Thanks.
Great video TY, I replaced the ribbon cable like shown here, when I fired up the phantom the gimbal started to flop around erratically in all directions and I didn't see any video coming through. Any suggestions?
Congratulations, very good. Where can I buy this gimbal plate? My drono phantom 2 plus v3 is lit the red light of the gimbal and does not recognize the USB card or see the camera. If you have I buy and you send via mail to Brazil.
hi, im a beginner in this nice hobby..question..is it posible to do the same with a gopro/ Denver camera ? becouse i have this drone without gimbal/camera .. thank in advance
Hola. Felicitaciones por el vídeo subido muy bueno. Luego de una caída al piso de mi Phantom 3 std reparé el gimbal cambiando 2 motores el Yaw motor y el Roll motor y cambié el flex que se había cortado. Cuando enciendo el drone la cámara no se estabiliza en la posición correcta tomando una posición extrema quedando los motores haciendo fuerza. No se que hacer. Hi. Congratulations on the video uploaded very good. After a fall to the floor of my Phantom 3 std I noticed the gimbal changing 2 motors the engine Yaw and Roll and changed the flex engine that had been cut. When I turn on the camera drone is not stabilized in the correct position by taking an extreme position being engines use force. I do not know what to do.
Hi there how are you? I need help with how to take out the broken piece of the shaft on the camera pitch motor, should i use a screwdriver and a hammer or is there a better way. thanks in advance for your help.
Great video but sadly I have needed to use it twice. The first time was went perfect and everything worked like new. The second time I have a problem. Camera pan and yaw work, but the roll does not (roll is where the unit separates). The axis moves freely without power and you can hear and feel the unit attempting to move under power but unfortunately it does not move. That of courses causes the app the throw an error suggesting the gimbal is obstructed. Everything else works fine and I have shot video with it in flight with the current condition but there is of course evidence in the video that there is no roll stability. Any thoughts or ideas on what else I might try? Thanks again.
WORSE DECISION I EVER MADE - Repair MD is a joke and a rip off - ruclips.net/video/8_MogNrP-90/видео.html Link shows their work - Shortly after this video - I lost the drone while it was working - I wish I had someone tell me this before I sent to these clowns!! took over a month to get my messed up P2V+ back with a bad repair and twice as long to get my money back - I thought I was going to have to go visit these idiots!!!
I'm not so convinced the horizon of the gimbal in your Video will be horizontal, I've done this twice on my Phantom and the best way I've found to get a pefect horizon is to level it first, check it on the screen/app and THEN apply the epoxy from the outside. If you apply the epoxy at an early stage like on this movie you risk to end up with an uneven horizon. AND: on my Phantom the axis camera arm has to be the other way around.. the screw goes in on the flat side of the axis.. Everything else "this is the way you solve your gimbal problems"..
Hello, I followed the repair all the way to the epoxy part. I decided not to add the epoxy at that point so that I could align the stabilizer later on. My camera now receives a signal, both the gimbal base and the vertical stabilizer are working, but my horizontal stabilizer will not rotate. I have not added the epoxy yet. When I tried to turn it on the first time, it rotated momentarily before slipping. I'm going to assume this is because the camera is not correctly aligned with the little motor. Is that why the epoxy is so important? Is it possible that the motor itself is out? How do I approach solving this issue?
Sorry for all the messages, but a bit of an update. The camera works almost 100%, but now I receive a motor error on my DJI app. I'm thinking it could be a few things... 1) the new flex cable I bought is faulty at that point. unlikely given that is where the majority of the damage occured 2) the flex cable to that motor is out. if this is the case, is it possible to replace that motor individually?
Hi I fixed the horizontal on the gimball, put the three screws back, went for a flight and everything was level,,, got it out today and everything in all wrong like before I fixed it What did I do wrong or what should I do^
I need help. Seems I have lost power to gimbal. I get no video and the camera just turns to the left and no activity on the horizontal or vertical gimbal motors. Does not appear that any cables are broken. DJI app displays remove gimbal lock warning. How does one delete and re-install firmware for this?
David Brzeczek hello there David i just had to replace my camera main board the one where the sd car goes now i dont get a response to the gimbal like if the motor was dead it beeps beeps and just slowly moves but like if is dying did you fix your problem ? i dont know id i should try another yal arm motor ? i do have one but not sure how to get it out ether ? i see o the video he puts it in with epoxy, but how do you get it out ? do you know irepair TY ?
Just push the clips down as far as the base of the plastic screw type part holding the camera to the bracket, no need to cut off your fingers trying to use a flat razor blade to cut them off plus you can't reuse them his way and you can this way!!
When the DJI vision application is on (or litchi), I don't get any video image, and the camera also tilts towards the bottom. I manually can tilt it down as well, but not up .... any ideas ? Plz
I've bought a ribbon from eBay and installed it. Didn't help me for my phantom 2 vision + could I have installed it wrong? Help please. I don't have another 600$ on a camera,
hi~ i foundout my camera head will tilt down and up repeatly itself after changed ribbon ~ what can i do ? i think u got the same problem after 1st time install the battery into phantom , what magic to fix it ?
hi followed your steps.. the gimbal is on now.. and responding to moving the phantom... i can't connect via wifi to the phantom though.. could it be caused by something i did wrong, when fixing the gimbal?
+Gilhus1985 hi i resolved the issue.. turns out to be a loose cable connector... one from the gimbal assembly to the Drone.. the small one at 2:47 in this video...
Could you help me out. Today i crashed my pv2+. I had a gimbal protector that did its job from no motor seperation. The ribbon looks fine but when i tourn on the pv2+ the gimbal has no action and gives me a buzz....buzz 2x then about 5 sec later the same thing. Also the motors wont start up. I hooked it up to naza and the controller works fine but the gamble I'm not sure can you help me out thank you in advance I really do appreciate it
My camera control board is bad. Apparently when the cable shorted to the chassis it burnt out the Controller output chips. I thought replacing cable was going to fix my problem but the chips are bad. I fortunately was able to test the gimbal and camera on another phantom and it works fine. Thought about buying someone's broken camera on eBay but suspect too many of these Broken cameras would have same issue. So I just use this drone for practice without the camera. Maybe some point will find a good controller board.
I replaced the cable, and now the gimbal shakes real bad. I did a full firm ware delete, and reinstall. The axle is aligned perfectly, and still shakes
38:12 The camera is twitching out while it tries and find equilibrium, having an epileptic fit, can hear it buzzing. 38:19 When you pitch the quad forward and backward the cameras vertical tilt is hanging like a limp sausage. 43:03 Here it didn't want to stabilise at all, you were stabbing it with your finger to bring it back to life while hearing the brushless motors short out. 44:00 'Tilting it pretty hard here and as you can see, it's staying pretty level'... The room was leaning side to side, your assistants head was sideways and look like you were operating the camera with FPV Mode enabled to the camera movement is synchronised with the quad. You sure the gimbals fixed? There is now way a gimbal calibration will fix that either. Those motors are dead.
i have phantom 2 vision plus ...it has got crashed ..they r saying it wont work anymore and their is no gimbal and camera sold in any store or online shop...if its der aLSO ITS more price ...cant we install h3- 3d gimbal? or anytng tat we can install instead.. any one can suggest me to do what ...please..
What would make this video very useful would be if I could actually see what you were doing. You do so much that is outside the view of the video camera and I honestly cannot guess what it is that you are doing.
hello there friends can any one here help me changer the yal arm motor, i just change the camera main board where the sd card goes(not sure the tec name for it) all this because it crash, so now the camera makes a noise the it moves very slow ? i do hava another yal arm motor but i get get it out and dont want to breack something againg ? thanks
The next time you have to take a gimbal off. Push those clear plastic nuts up the clear shaft and then back down. They'll come right off. No need to pry them open as you were doing with that blade.
shit i just crashed my drone in a tree and has taken the same damage. Can you give me a direction for the cable? Don't trust these cheap looking websites..
www.rotorpixel.com/troubleshooting/ need your help. for the above article, we can find the solution for not levelling camera when the gimbal starts up, on point 4: Press the small black button on the back of the gimbal once quickly (do not hold it down... this will reset the board completely). Do u know where's the small black button ?
Why do Americans use those two words "Go ahead" so bloody often. Remove those two words and what follows is perfectly understandable, so it's not as if they actually mean anything. It's as bad as Ummm and errr etc. Very irritating to hear the same thing over and over again. I doubt they even know they're doing it. As for the razor blade, errr, ummm.
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Many thanks. Had precisely the same issues with a drone I bought from a user who crashed it: torn flex cable and disconnected pitch motor. Your step-by-step instructions worked perfectly, epoxy and all!
FRRREAAAAAAKING AWESOME !!!!! I followed your steps and managed to fix my gimbal myself ! HUGE THANKS !!!
Thanks for this awesome tutorial. This tutorial finally helped me in repairing my gimbal. I had already tried several times without succes but the level of detail in your tutorial finally did it. Thank you for making and posting. It is the best tutorial i have found about this subject yet.
Greatly appreciate this video tutorial. My Vision+ had exactly the same damage - gimbal separated on the roll axis tearing the cable - but no damage to the pitch axis. Tedious work due to the size but the repair worked perfectly saving me $600 for a replacement camera.
Muchas gracias por compartir su experiencia, me ayudó muchísimo a resolver y despejar mis dudas en el muy proceso.....
Thank you for the very good video material for drone repair. I did it for the first time and I am very happy because the video system works. Thanks again - best regards
Thank You very mutch. Your Video help's me to fix the Gimbal bug after a crash.
Excellent job! Will use your video as a guide to replace my ribbon cable on a Phantom 3 Advance (as soon as the spare part arrives...!)
Neco Alert, but this video was a big help. Tip for others, get some plumbers putty or almost any putty and use it as a base for the part to keep it from moving around on the table.
wow woww wowww..great job sir ! [ For me mission imposible..soo complex..you awesome for shure prof !
Excellent job my friend, you helped me a lot, thank you!! greetings from argentina.
thanks man; I crashed my drone on the first day I got it, the gimbal fell apart, tore the flex cable and was a huge pain in my butt! now after over a month I had the stones for an attempt on replacing the cable with the help of your video. it took me about 7 hours cause I didn't want to break anything else, but now it works again just fine and I'm over the moon!! thanks so much!
Similar situation, just got my drone and crashed it today. The camera separated from the gimble and tore the flex wire. Ordered a set off of eBay so i hope i can get them installed and everything works good. Tried turning it on for the hell of it after i crashed it and the camera was just going crazy up down sideways. so hopefully this fixes my problems. I am just gonna follow the steps in this video.
Same here man. U get yours fixed ?? I did it to mine last night . So pissed
Great video! Im going to do it with my gimbal. I just want to ask how much glue should i apply to the shaft? Mine is shaking pretty badly.
wow that was the best tutorial I have ever watched. .
Excellent video,many thanks. I hope I never have to do this, but I think I am now confident enough to tackle this repair. I have fitted aftermarket protectors,why does DJI not do this?
I fly my Phantom very conservatively, largely due to fear of gimbal damage, I may now be a bit(only a bit) more adventurous.
Thanks.
Great video TY, I replaced the ribbon cable like shown here, when I fired up the phantom the gimbal started to flop around erratically in all directions and I didn't see any video coming through. Any suggestions?
excelente video !
Hi the process that you make in the 14:15 is posible to apply in the phantom 3, and this is plastic or metal epoxy. thanks.
Congratulations, very good. Where can I buy this gimbal plate? My drono phantom 2 plus v3 is lit the red light of the gimbal and does not recognize the USB card or see the camera. If you have I buy and you send via mail to Brazil.
hi, im a beginner in this nice hobby..question..is it posible to do the same with a gopro/ Denver camera ? becouse i have this drone without gimbal/camera .. thank in advance
Do you have any videos on how to replace the cables from the Wi-Fi module to the gimbal?
Where do you get your parts from?
Hola. Felicitaciones por el vídeo subido muy bueno. Luego de una caída al piso de mi Phantom 3 std reparé el gimbal cambiando 2 motores el Yaw motor y el Roll motor y cambié el flex que se había cortado. Cuando enciendo el drone la cámara no se estabiliza en la posición correcta tomando una posición extrema quedando los motores haciendo fuerza. No se que hacer.
Hi. Congratulations on the video uploaded very good. After a fall to the floor of my Phantom 3 std I noticed the gimbal changing 2 motors the engine Yaw and Roll and changed the flex engine that had been cut. When I turn on the camera drone is not stabilized in the correct position by taking an extreme position being engines use force. I do not know what to do.
Thanks John Doyle it works great!!😎👌🏾
my man i think you just saved me shitton of money, HUGE THANKS!!
Where did you get the dji vision gimbal guard XL? I couldn't find it on Ebay or Amazon. Thanks
Hi there how are you? I need help with how to take out the broken piece of the shaft on the camera pitch motor, should i use a screwdriver and a hammer or is there a better way. thanks in advance for your help.
Hi, nice video and it was a great help form me. I have repaered my drone with succes. Greets from Oudenaarde, Belgium
Great video but sadly I have needed to use it twice. The first time was went perfect and everything worked like new. The second time I have a problem. Camera pan and yaw work, but the roll does not (roll is where the unit separates). The axis moves freely without power and you can hear and feel the unit attempting to move under power but unfortunately it does not move. That of courses causes the app the throw an error suggesting the gimbal is obstructed. Everything else works fine and I have shot video with it in flight with the current condition but there is of course evidence in the video that there is no roll stability. Any thoughts or ideas on what else I might try?
Thanks again.
I need a gimbal ribbon replacement - looks just like this one in the video? How can I contact you and where are you?
Www.irepairmd.com
WORSE DECISION I EVER MADE - Repair MD is a joke and a rip off -
ruclips.net/video/8_MogNrP-90/видео.html
Link shows their work - Shortly after this video - I lost the drone while it was working - I wish I had someone tell me this before I sent to these clowns!! took over a month to get my messed up P2V+ back with a bad repair and twice as long to get my money back - I thought I was going to have to go visit these idiots!!!
Do you offer this as a paid service? 4+ years later....not sure this fix is worth it vs grabbing newer drones :(
You are awesome THANK YOU !!!!
I'm not so convinced the horizon of the gimbal in your Video will be horizontal, I've done this twice on my Phantom and the best way I've found to get a pefect horizon is to level it first, check it on the screen/app and THEN apply the epoxy from the outside. If you apply the epoxy at an early stage like on this movie you risk to end up with an uneven horizon.
AND: on my Phantom the axis camera arm has to be the other way around.. the screw goes in on the flat side of the axis..
Everything else "this is the way you solve your gimbal problems"..
Hello,
I followed the repair all the way to the epoxy part. I decided not to add the epoxy at that point so that I could align the stabilizer later on. My camera now receives a signal, both the gimbal base and the vertical stabilizer are working, but my horizontal stabilizer will not rotate. I have not added the epoxy yet. When I tried to turn it on the first time, it rotated momentarily before slipping. I'm going to assume this is because the camera is not correctly aligned with the little motor. Is that why the epoxy is so important? Is it possible that the motor itself is out? How do I approach solving this issue?
Also, if I move the camera with my finger, I can hear the gimbal trying to align or rotate or something. Not entirely sure.
Sorry for all the messages, but a bit of an update. The camera works almost 100%, but now I receive a motor error on my DJI app. I'm thinking it could be a few things...
1) the new flex cable I bought is faulty at that point. unlikely given that is where the majority of the damage occured
2) the flex cable to that motor is out. if this is the case, is it possible to replace that motor individually?
I did it! Thanks for your help.
Where do I buy a new cable?
my gimbal shakes from side to side when i fly the 3 axle is not working,do you have any video on how to fix this
Steven Elliott Mine did this, and I re installed the DJI app, and all was well.
What's the name of the epoxy used in the video? Thanks
does the phantom 2 vision plus support the 4k camera of phantom 3 ? #iRepairMD RUclips
Where I can buy the protection of ginbal
Hi, do you still do repairs on this for ? if I pay you
I had a really hard landing today with my Phantom 3 and the horazontal part went up...about a millimeter...can doing this in this vid fix it?
How do you apply the epoxy
On the very last clip/switch it does not snap, and hold it? Is it possible to break this part??
hey, where can I buy a yaw arm for the phantom 2 vision plus? can't find anything on eBay?
Hi I fixed the horizontal on the gimball, put the three screws back, went for a flight and everything was level,,, got it out today and everything in all wrong like before I fixed it
What did I do wrong or what should I do^
Hey repair what happened to the digitizer adhesive glue you had on eBay? It was perfect but now it's gone :(
Pikachew please buy it directly from my website: www.irepairmd.com
I need help. Seems I have lost power to gimbal. I get no video and the camera just turns to the left and no activity on the horizontal or vertical gimbal motors. Does not appear that any cables are broken. DJI app displays remove gimbal lock warning. How does one delete and re-install firmware for this?
David Brzeczek hello there David i just had to replace my camera main board the one where the sd car goes now i dont get a response to the gimbal like if the motor was dead it beeps beeps and just slowly moves but like if is dying did you fix your problem ? i dont know id i should try another yal arm motor ? i do have one but not sure how to get it out ether ? i see o the video he puts it in with epoxy, but how do you get it out ? do you know irepair TY ?
After doing the ribbon the camera jerk around a lot. any thoughts
Did you have any luck solving this issue? I have the same issue
Just push the clips down as far as the base of the plastic screw type part holding the camera to the bracket, no need to cut off your fingers trying to use a flat razor blade to cut them off plus you can't reuse them his way and you can this way!!
When the DJI vision application is on (or litchi), I don't get any video image, and the camera also tilts towards the bottom. I manually can tilt it down as well, but not up .... any ideas ? Plz
I've bought a ribbon from eBay and installed it. Didn't help me for my phantom 2 vision + could I have installed it wrong? Help please. I don't have another 600$ on a camera,
hi~ i foundout my camera head will tilt down and up repeatly itself after changed ribbon ~ what can i do ? i think u got the same problem after 1st time install the battery into phantom , what magic to fix it ?
hey so i did this and replaced my gimbal but now the whole thing is moving around constantly. No idea what went wrong.
Your cable could be defective,
hi followed your steps.. the gimbal is on now.. and responding to moving the phantom... i can't connect via wifi to the phantom though.. could it be caused by something i did wrong, when fixing the gimbal?
+Wisu Suntoyo Try re-binding the controller to your phantom. Should be a video about it on youtube.
+Gilhus1985 hi i resolved the issue.. turns out to be a loose cable connector... one from the gimbal assembly to the Drone.. the small one at 2:47 in this video...
Could you help me out. Today i crashed my pv2+. I had a gimbal protector that did its job from no motor seperation. The ribbon looks fine but when i tourn on the pv2+ the gimbal has no action and gives me a buzz....buzz 2x then about 5 sec later the same thing. Also the motors wont start up. I hooked it up to naza and the controller works fine but the gamble I'm not sure can you help me out thank you in advance I really do appreciate it
Can i skip the epoxy part and just calibrate the gimbal every time?
Can someone please answer me?
hey i cant get the ribbon to stay in the slots can you help
My camera control board is bad. Apparently when the cable shorted to the chassis it burnt out the Controller output chips. I thought replacing cable was going to fix my problem but the chips are bad. I fortunately was able to test the gimbal and camera on another phantom and it works fine. Thought about buying someone's broken camera on eBay but suspect too many of these Broken cameras would have same issue. So I just use this drone for practice without the camera. Maybe some point will find a good controller board.
I replaced the cable, and now the gimbal shakes real bad. I did a full firm ware delete, and reinstall. The axle is aligned perfectly, and still shakes
I can fix this problem for you email me
I cannot find your email
iRepairMD RUclips I also aligned the rear shaft perfectly and still shaking. Can you please give me you email address as well?
Yiye 1 I fixed mine by pulling the camera off its shaft, and rotating that shaft 180*
38:12 The camera is twitching out while it tries and find equilibrium, having an epileptic fit, can hear it buzzing.
38:19 When you pitch the quad forward and backward the cameras vertical tilt is hanging like a limp sausage.
43:03 Here it didn't want to stabilise at all, you were stabbing it with your finger to bring it back to life while hearing the brushless motors short out.
44:00 'Tilting it pretty hard here and as you can see, it's staying pretty level'... The room was leaning side to side, your assistants head was sideways and look like you were operating the camera with FPV Mode enabled to the camera movement is synchronised with the quad.
You sure the gimbals fixed?
There is now way a gimbal calibration will fix that either. Those motors are dead.
How good do not do that in front of the camera
i have phantom 2 vision plus ...it has got crashed ..they r saying it wont work anymore and their is no gimbal and camera sold in any store or online shop...if its der aLSO ITS more price ...cant we install h3- 3d gimbal? or anytng tat we can install instead..
any one can suggest me to do what ...please..
What would make this video very useful would be if I could actually see what you were doing. You do so much that is outside the view of the video camera and I honestly cannot guess what it is that you are doing.
hello there friends can any one here help me changer the yal arm motor, i just change the camera main board where the sd card goes(not sure the tec name for it) all this because it crash, so now the camera makes a noise the it moves very slow ? i do hava another yal arm motor but i get get it out and dont want to breack something againg ? thanks
my DJI phantom 2 vision + is not on
what should i do
turn it off
The next time you have to take a gimbal off. Push those clear plastic nuts up the clear shaft and then back down. They'll come right off. No need to pry them open as you were doing with that blade.
Thanks ;-)
Panthom3 my gimbal broken and lance cracked any body can repair for me
hand in the midle
shit i just crashed my drone in a tree and has taken the same damage. Can you give me a direction for the cable? Don't trust these cheap looking websites..
www.rotorpixel.com/troubleshooting/
need your help.
for the above article, we can find the solution for not levelling camera when the gimbal starts up, on point 4: Press the small black button on the back of the gimbal once quickly (do not hold it down... this will reset the board completely).
Do u know where's the small black button ?
Selling my Vision 2 plus with extra battery, it crashed on my last shoot and don't have time to fix it, $400. Tah
Why do Americans use those two words "Go ahead" so bloody often. Remove those two words and what follows is perfectly understandable, so it's not as if they actually mean anything. It's as bad as Ummm and errr etc. Very irritating to hear the same thing over and over again. I doubt they even know they're doing it. As for the razor blade, errr, ummm.