Hi iAligator, great video. I've had my Mavic Air for about 10 months now and today I crashed it. Wasn't watching the battery level and before I realized it I knew It was going to crash. I was trying to maintain altitude and get it back as close as possible to the launch site. I ended up flying it into a chain link fence. It flipped over on it's back and probably did dirt angles before shutting down. We were off roading so I had the tools to dig under the fence and was able to reach it with a hoe. I could see all four blades were broke but that's all. When I finally rescued it and look it over I discovered all four motors had sand in them. Thanks to you I was able save the motors. When we got back to the house I was completely baffled as what I was going to and that's when I found your great video and it saved the day and the motors. Thank you.
Great video and advise, thanks. Fixed my spark gimble motor overloaded issues, the vacuum and dust-off worked great. After thought, don't fly the spark near the beach or places with lots of sands. Or you should use launch pad when taking off from hazard areas.
Great video, i got gimbal motor overload from a windy day landed and then it blew into the sand. thanks for the help. hopefully this remedy works and i can fly again
Will try this for sure! I crashed my Mavic Air on the sand last weekend so I was already looking for motor replacements on Amazon but I will try this first and see how it goes. Nice video! even if it doesn't work for ma later.
I had the same problem but with dirt, the only problem is I forgot how it got in there, so I’m assuming it was dirt, how I know there is stuff in there is I hear a rattle noise when I spin the motors by hand, any suggestions?
Hello, My dji spark gimbal broken due to fall above 30 feet height and I tried to test my spark and motors are working but drone is misbehaving while flying and also its motors are not stopping when I turned my spark to ground side, please help me on this issue.
I had it BAD!...motors were almost completely seized. I bought a can of the compressed air and did the vacuum in the air, and it did hardly nothing, Motors real hard to turn and when you did turn it it sounded like the send was never going to get out of there. Well I fired up my air compressor and I unscrewed the motors from both sides and let it just hang by the wires and really got in there and blew the shit out of it, and I got them to where they spun pretty easy, but still sounded horrible and then I just started my drone up, and only one motor would Spin and it just kept shutting off, I just hope the other Motors along with my finger, just kept restarting it, the motors I'm talking about, and eventually it worked, now my Motors are just like nothing was ever in them, I got really lucky!
Thanks, after this flight ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h6EEuqvyDjQ.html I landed in the sand in the field to the right and got gimbel overload due to sand. Removing the sand as you explained helped. I also moved the gimbel up/down a bit by hand to loosen it, not sure if that can do any harm, but that also helped.
