Drone repair advice
Discussion
Not sure if this is the correct forum but what the hell.
I'm after some advice on the best way to repair a drone. I got an MJX Bugs 3 for Christmas off my wife and me and the kids had a great time flying it around my inlaws field. My wife insisted she had a go and crashed it into a dry stone wall and snapped an arm. Everything works fine so I've bought a replacement frame from China (£6.35 worth) with the intention of transferring all the guts from the broken frame to the new one. The wires to the motors will need cutting and re-soldering so I was thinking of adding some plugs onto the wires so that in the event it suffers the same fate in the future I can swap everything over a lot quicker. My questions are:
1) Is the plug idea a good one or will it cause problems?
2) What plug connectors should I use?
Here are some pictures of the motor and drone layout (not my drone BTW)
The motor wires have to be fed through the arms to the speed controllers, however you do have access to most of the motor wires on the underside of the arm (there are some LED covers that unscrew).
These are the motor wires....
I'm after some advice on the best way to repair a drone. I got an MJX Bugs 3 for Christmas off my wife and me and the kids had a great time flying it around my inlaws field. My wife insisted she had a go and crashed it into a dry stone wall and snapped an arm. Everything works fine so I've bought a replacement frame from China (£6.35 worth) with the intention of transferring all the guts from the broken frame to the new one. The wires to the motors will need cutting and re-soldering so I was thinking of adding some plugs onto the wires so that in the event it suffers the same fate in the future I can swap everything over a lot quicker. My questions are:
1) Is the plug idea a good one or will it cause problems?
2) What plug connectors should I use?
Here are some pictures of the motor and drone layout (not my drone BTW)
The motor wires have to be fed through the arms to the speed controllers, however you do have access to most of the motor wires on the underside of the arm (there are some LED covers that unscrew).
These are the motor wires....
Thanks for the advice. After taking it apart I decided to desolder and resolder straight on to the ESC board. I've done a bit of soldering (mainly splicing things/repairing car looms), but haven't done any electronics soldering since school CDT classes 25 years ago.
As things go, it went pretty well, took plenty of pictures, got all the wires resoldered without too much swearing and when I tested it it all seemed to work fine. It took about an hour and a half and about 7 quids worth of material to repair.
I don't know what solder was used in the factory but it seemed to take a hell of a lot more heat than the solder I used to reattach the wires (I was worried I was going to melt something important on the ESC). Anyway, everything seems to work alright. I've flown it around my kitchen. I just need some decent weather to take it out for a spin.
Next move is to order 2 or 3 of the plastic frames from China, I bet this won't be the last repair job.....
As things go, it went pretty well, took plenty of pictures, got all the wires resoldered without too much swearing and when I tested it it all seemed to work fine. It took about an hour and a half and about 7 quids worth of material to repair.
I don't know what solder was used in the factory but it seemed to take a hell of a lot more heat than the solder I used to reattach the wires (I was worried I was going to melt something important on the ESC). Anyway, everything seems to work alright. I've flown it around my kitchen. I just need some decent weather to take it out for a spin.
Next move is to order 2 or 3 of the plastic frames from China, I bet this won't be the last repair job.....
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