I had nearly my first major incident today.
I flew in one area then landed . Left my drone and controller ON… Drove 5 mins down the road took off and the think went mental hard to controll nearly divebombed on a car. Would not hover and very latent controls.
Just managed to get it back in one peice .
Error message was proccessir overheat navigation system error…it was hot…thats no lie.
Im hoping me taking it so far away from initial takeoff without powering it down has confused the gps
I wont do that again
But the rth updated before it went funny so thought that would have reset the gps
The drone and battery will heat up quite rapidly if it’s left on while on the ground. Especially if the ambient temperature is high. Which it has been today. Apart from anything else it’s really bad for the health of the battery to let it heat up like that.
convenience for moving a couple minutes , im quite new and still figuring out the dos and donts as i have never seen any instruction to tell me otherwise , i guess it comes down to experience.
Thanks for the tips guys.i now know not to leave it on idle
Not that its much different , its a mini se .
I have screen recording of the flight replay but wont upload in current format.
I gathered it was heat related sending the thing a bit scatty due to the overtemp warning.and multiple systems ( rc connection , gps signal , signal interference along with proccessor overtemp ) and the loss of hover.
It was a short flight of 1:27 where it nearly bolted away then dive bombed when trying to stop it going up uncontrollably and think the bottom sensors saved it .
Then it must have cooled a bit in flight to recover
Only other time its got that hot was from new doing initial updates.so what your saying makes sense that it needs a constant airflow but does that mean it can be vulnerable hovering on a hot day with no wind that you would consider perfect conditions? .
Ive had it on on a few flights since and its been fine so no damage done.
Im waiting on mini 3 whenever it arrives and have learned so much with the se.
Apart from me not being full of BS on this matter, did anybody learn anything else after me going to the trouble figuring this out lol .
Or is airdata a waste of time by the time youve had an incident or crash its not much use but to point blame. In my case thats what im worried about … If it did hit the moving car or worse and caused a series of further events would i be left looking being accused of being wreckless or inept in control of a drone where it actually went berserk
The battery temperature at the start of the flight was about 32.6 degrees C. That’s quite warm, though the battery does get safely warmer than this during flight. But based on the context you’ve given that it’d been sat down but turned on for some time before flying (it’s definitely significantly warmer than any record I’ve had for the start of a flight), it’s likely the electronics had similarly been heating up, probably a lot more so than the battery in that time. Remember there’s no airflow over the battery or electronics while landed.
I’d say it’s a bit of confirming information to what’s been previously said; overtemperature is the root cause. Just something to remember for the future that it doesn’t need to be turned on when not in flight. Waiting for a GPS fix is a bit annoying but it’s preferable.
