Evo lite overheated

[Erlan]

Hi everyone, I'm from Suriname Paramaribo so no drone service here in this part of Amazonia. I use my Evo lite for my environmental work and I was on a mission in the forest with the drone in the bag with fully loaded battery attached. When I arrived, I took the drone out and it was extremely hot. I could not hold it. The battery on the drone was almost empty. I took of the battery and let the drone cool down before I would fly. I already was afraid it was damaged. The drone turned on normally, and my dashboard was green and "safe to fly". Camera was working so I powered the engines on and noticed the right back engine/propellor was instable for a few seconds until is stopped completely. Either the engine was fried, or the cable was damaged, or the circuit board was damaged. This was the first time this happened to me, and I didn't see any warnings not to attach a loaded battery to the drone during travel or I missed it. Anyway, the switch must have been pressed during travel, but I noticed nothing (no humming sounds of the engine) as the drone bag was constantly with me. There was no dead weight on the drone bag to press the power button, but I could have missed it. Did anyone experienced anything like this and what did I do wrong? In case of an engine failure, I've already repaired or replaced a propellor arm so I must be able to replace the engine myself. I have 2 evo lite wrecked bodies here due to crashes (my mistakes) but can I try any of the old engines or are they typical per arm? Any way thanks for reading about my misery

 

[GFields]

Hi everyone, I'm from Suriname Paramaribo so no drone service here in this part of Amazonia. I use my Evo lite for my environmental work and I was on a mission in the forest with the drone in the bag with fully loaded battery attached. When I arrived, I took the drone out and it was extremely hot. I could not hold it. The battery on the drone was almost empty. I took of the battery and let the drone cool down before I would fly. I already was afraid it was damaged. The drone turned on normally, and my dashboard was green and "safe to fly". Camera was working so I powered the engines on and noticed the right back engine/propellor was instable for a few seconds until is stopped completely. Either the engine was fried, or the cable was damaged, or the circuit board was damaged. This was the first time this happened to me, and I didn't see any warning not to attach a loaded battery to the drone during travel or I missed it. Anyway, the switch must have been pressed during travel but i noticed nothing (no humming sounds of the engine) as the drone bag was constantly with me. There was no weight on the drone bag to press the power button, but I could have missed it. Did anyone experienced anything like this and what did I do wrong? I case of an engine failure I've already repaired or replaced a propellor arm so I must be able to replace the engine myself. I have 2 evo lite wrecked bodies here due to crashes (my mistakes) but can I try any of the old engines or are they typical per arm? Any way thanks for reading about my misery

Yes they are “typical” to the correct arm. Each motor spins a certain way.

Two spin clockwise and two spin counter clockwise

 

[Bslody]

Hi everyone, I'm from Suriname Paramaribo so no drone service here in this part of Amazonia. I use my Evo lite for my environmental work and I was on a mission in the forest with the drone in the bag with fully loaded battery attached. When I arrived, I took the drone out and it was extremely hot. I could not hold it. The battery on the drone was almost empty. I took of the battery and let the drone cool down before I would fly. I already was afraid it was damaged. The drone turned on normally, and my dashboard was green and "safe to fly". Camera was working so I powered the engines on and noticed the right back engine/propellor was instable for a few seconds until is stopped completely. Either the engine was fried, or the cable was damaged, or the circuit board was damaged. This was the first time this happened to me, and I didn't see any warnings not to attach a loaded battery to the drone during travel or I missed it. Anyway, the switch must have been pressed during travel, but I noticed nothing (no humming sounds of the engine) as the drone bag was constantly with me. There was no dead weight on the drone bag to press the power button, but I could have missed it. Did anyone experienced anything like this and what did I do wrong? In case of an engine failure, I've already repaired or replaced a propellor arm so I must be able to replace the engine myself. I have 2 evo lite wrecked bodies here due to crashes (my mistakes) but can I try any of the old engines or are they typical per arm? Any way thanks for reading about my misery

I've inadvertently have pushed the button on the battery several times while in the soft case. I added rubber stick on bumpers on either side of the power button to help protect from pushing it. Luckily I've heard the drone turning on and turned it off right away.

 

[Erlan]

Yes they are “typical” to the correct arm. Each motor spins a certain way.

Two spin clockwise and two spin counter clockwise

Thank you. This is helpful.

 

[Erlan]

Surprise surprise... I don't know what happened but just as I was planning to operate on the drone to change the prop engine, I decided to give it a test run without the props. all 4 engines are running normally again at least that seems to be. I will do a test flight at a very low hight and let it fly for a few minutes. I already had a drone (Autel Evo Lite +) that crashed after 4 minutes in flight from 100 meters hight in Bolivia. The engine made a strange loud noise and I thought is was just the propellor. After the crash I realized the engine was not okay but as I had no drone service in Bolivia I took the risk to do my work. It might have caught too much dust in an earlier flight when I was in a situation when I had to land it on a very dusty ground. The props during landing caused lots of dust in the air and I suppose the engine might have sucked the dust and might have been damaged during this moment. Any experience anybody as I still wonder if that was even possible? Yes I know we need to land on a clean landing spot but what are the consequences when you have no other choice?

 

[Erlan]

Surprise surprise... I don't know what happened but just as I was planning to operate on the drone to change the prop engine, I decided to give it a test run without the props. all 4 engines are running normal again at least that seems to be. I did a test flight at a very low hight and let it fly for a few minutes. I already had a drone (Autel Evo Lite +) that crashed after 4 minutes in flight from 100 meters hight in Bolivia. The engine made a strange loud noise and I thought is was just the propellor. After the crash I realized the engine was not okay but as I had no drone service in Bolivia, I took the risk to do fly. It might have caught too much dust in an earlier flight when I was in a situation when I had to land it on a very dusty ground. The props during landing caused lots of dust in the air and I suppose the engine might have sucked the dust and might have been damaged during this moment. Any experience anybody with dust as I still wonder if that was even possible? Yes I know we need to land in a clean landing spot but what are the consequences when you have no other choice?