Every drone needs to be treated with waterproof coatings so moisture of any kind doesn't short out the FC or ESC's. Use Silicone Conformal Coating and check coverage with a UV light, it Florence's so uncoated areas are shown.
Waterproofing it is one thing. Actually working on the electronics after the fact is quite another. Make sure you are the pilot that crashes their quad minimally.
Dont hand launch a drone. ever I did this with my drone and i am lucky to only have 5 stitches in my pinkie. Just set it down its not hard and its a million times safer.
Don't do it. It's super risky. Holding a powered 4 blade hand/face blender is not something that should be recommended. Let alone one that is powered with blades spinning. Literally, anything can happen, even if you're the most careful pilot in the world, esc malfunctions, among many other things, can cause a drone motor to throttle up without warning. Ask me how I know😅
How are you supposed to waterproof brushless motors? They need to be open so they can be air cooled. Do you have to completely clean them out afterwards?
Just finished my waterproof build with parts from darwinfpv to find out the vtx doesn't work at all. And I built it in a way I have to take the entire thing apart to get the vtx out. Super frustrating!! Hopefully they send me another one
🤦♂️ after you have developed a level of comfort with your drone, it's pretty easy to hand launch without incident. It's probably not the best idea with a brand new, untested drone. You want to at least b|e comfortable that it's going to react the way you expect it. It may not be the very safest method of launching, and will really hurt if it goes wrong, but once you have established the drone is safe to fly, assuming y are aware of the areas unsafe to touch.
This was genius now I know it's okay for my drone to hit water and fly out tbh this was more informative than it's given credit for beats the simulator I thought it couldn't be done in real life
