Camera woes

[GreyArea]

Arrived at takeoff site. Launched, realised record buttons not working. Landed. Changed SD card. Startup - no video feed from camera, but gimbal works. Main page reports space remaining on SD card as "0MB". No option to format there or in camera menu (in fact, there is no camera menu).

Dead camera? Anyone any ideas that are not going to cost me hundreds of pounds?

 

[DesertWindAero]

Check quality of the SD card. I've found that it MUST be a top quality, highest speed possible card.

 

[Alastair]

Arrived at takeoff site. Launched, realised record buttons not working. Landed. Changed SD card. Startup - no video feed from camera, but gimbal works. Main page reports space remaining on SD card as "0MB". No option to format there or in camera menu (in fact, there is no camera menu).

Dead camera? Anyone any ideas that are not going to cost me hundreds of pounds?

Check the contacts on the AC side and make sure that they're properly aligned. Also check that the ribbon cables behind those contacts are properly seated.

 

[GreyArea]

Three, brand new, Sandisk 64Gb Extreme PLUS, all test with CrystalDisk on my PC and showing good read/write speeds. I already checked the cables are seated correctly and they are. I don't know what the pins SHOULD look like so here are some pics...

Gimbal (bit blurred sorry!)

Pins on Zenmuse X3

• GreyArea
• May 30, 2016

Drone;

Pins on Inspire

• GreyArea
• May 30, 2016

Any ideas?

 

[GreyArea]

Actually, reading your post again, I haven't checked the aircraft contacts...I'll have a look...

 

[Steve@AerialImagesPro]

Try formatting the card with your pc first. That's the only thing I can think of.

 

[old curmudgeon]

I don't know if this is relevant, but I had similar problems with the camera disappearing after recalibrating the compass. I'd get the red no signal warning and the IMU and RTH settings also disappeared. Only option was to switch off and reboot AC. If that didn't work, then I reinstalled the camera. Now I don't recalibrate the compass any more and the system works fine.