
Chameleon FPV - Yep, I still hate water
- about 8 years ago
- 87 VŪZ
4 

- 2
- Report
Took both Chameleons out to the coast today. Everything went well at my first stop in Cayucos, CA. I didn't fly aggressively, it was just somewhere very different than what I'm used to. Usually I don't fly over water but Sprint was handling quite well so I figured why not. Then we headed over to Avila Beach. I forgot to record my second pack, which is where the real excitement was. I ended up hitting what I believe is an old bridge pillar next to the creek flowing into the ocean. I ended up crashing in the creek, which is mostly salt water. I lost video immediately. The current in the creek is quite strong, and Sprint wasn't visible from the surface. I went ahead and took my shoes off and started walking the creek in hopes to feel my quad. My friend Alex ended up helping out. One of the things I noticed was that things got buried quickly in the sand. So we've got 2 options as to what happened. Either it managed to float out and was currently in the Pacific Ocean or it sunk and due to the creek flowing so fast it was buried. We looked for about 45 minutes, the tide had started to come in. I'd pretty much given up at this point. We head back to our pile of shoes and Alex looks over for a second and says "Hey, what's that orange thing right there?" It was my quad, the only thing sticking out of the sand was 2 props. I pulled it out and you could smell the burnt electronics immediately. As the tide was coming back in it had washed the sand off the top of the quad. At this moment my flight controller (DYSF4) is shot. 2 ESCs started falling apart as soon as I removed them, so I'm assuming all the ESCs are shot. I cleaned up the motors, pulled the bearings, cleaned them and re-oiled. I think they might be OK, though one bell is pretty dinged and that motor might need replacing. The VTX, receiver, and FPV Cam all appear ok. I see no signs of damage to chips or solder points on any of them, even the stickers are still intact. I won't know more until I have an opportunity to retest them
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