crashed drone | Matt Crawford https://mattcrawford.me Handyman | Geek | YouTuber Tue, 14 Jun 2022 23:18:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 176948450 I received my replacement drone in the mail https://mattcrawford.me/drone-update/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drone-update https://mattcrawford.me/drone-update/#respond Wed, 25 May 2022 15:30:00 +0000 https://mattcrawford.me/?p=7303 Earlier this week I wrote about an incident where I crashed my DJI Mini 2 Drone over the weekend. Well this post is a follow up to that one to let anybody interested know the latest situation regarding drone life. I received an e-mail on 5/18 to let me know that my replacement DJI Mini […]

The post I received my replacement drone in the mail first appeared on Matt Crawford.]]> Earlier this week I wrote about an incident where I crashed my DJI Mini 2 Drone over the weekend. Well this post is a follow up to that one to let anybody interested know the latest situation regarding drone life.

I received an e-mail on 5/18 to let me know that my replacement DJI Mini 2 drone is in the mail to my house. Fast forward and the drone has arrived in a brand new sealed box which I opened, updated and got synced to my controller again. I’m rdy to fly once more!

Regarding my son’s drone, I got the part to fix his DJI Mini 2 on 5/18/2022. I promptly installed the replacement power board and his drone is once more flying again.

I plan to teach him some tips on how to figure out good days vs bad days to fly it but also how to not crash it right away.

The post I received my replacement drone in the mail first appeared on Matt Crawford.]]> https://mattcrawford.me/drone-update/feed/ 0 7303 Oops! I crashed my DJI Mini 2 drone https://mattcrawford.me/oops-i-crashed-my-dji-mini-2-drone/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=oops-i-crashed-my-dji-mini-2-drone https://mattcrawford.me/oops-i-crashed-my-dji-mini-2-drone/#comments Mon, 16 May 2022 18:00:00 +0000 https://mattcrawford.me/?p=7276 Over the weekend while I was flying my DJI Mini 2 drone in my backyard and ended up smacking it into a tree and crashing it. I’ve owned this drone for well over a year now and honestly I’m surprised I didn’t end up crashing it sooner. While I could of easily repaired it myself, […]

The post Oops! I crashed my DJI Mini 2 drone first appeared on Matt Crawford.]]> Over the weekend while I was flying my DJI Mini 2 drone in my backyard and ended up smacking it into a tree and crashing it. I’ve owned this drone for well over a year now and honestly I’m surprised I didn’t end up crashing it sooner.

While I could of easily repaired it myself, I decided to send it off for a replacement since I have insurance that covers this sort of thing.

My son owns the same drone

Interesting enough I learned after crashing mine that my oldest son actually owns the same drone that he bought back in March which he crashed the first day he owned it and hasn’t flown it since. Needless to say he didn’t have insurance on his drone.

My son attempted to fix his drone but wasn’t able to get it done so he brought it over to me to fix. Upon receiving his drone I got the new part installed and noticed he screwed up the power board while he was unsoldering it so I ordered a new one of those on ebay so I can replace that.

Solder pads missing

With any luck I’ll have his drone flying within a week and have plans to use his drone until mine is replaced. Once I get mine back I plan to teach my son how to fly his drone so hopefully he doesn’t crash it right away again.

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