Pouring rain and 15 ft ish over water. Gimbal guard was on for protection. Tough little guy.
NEO in pouring rain over water
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Chrislaf
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Did you cover the buttons on the top? That’s what I’d be worried about - water working it’s way in and frying the electronics.
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No I did not. There's not much to cover on the NEO propellers.
Truth be told, I would not try the same with my Air 3S.
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I think the danger is water seeping in where the power button is and could easily cause a problem. That's where the wetsuits can protect the electronics, from what I seen others say.
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Poverty Flyer
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Few people I've heard of that have issues after a water crash.
If you can retrieve it from the water a good cleaning and drying with alcohol and toothbrush brings it back to life.
A electrical short from water on circuit boards isn't so easy to happen.
But I try not to take chances anyway.
The battery may be another story.
Cheers,
If you can retrieve it from the water a good cleaning and drying with alcohol and toothbrush brings it back to life.
A electrical short from water on circuit boards isn't so easy to happen.
But I try not to take chances anyway.
The battery may be another story.
Cheers,
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I got a little ahead of myself one day and zigged when I should have zagged, branch, gravity, rock... so I am on my second Neo. lol. But I did pop the other one open, for Science, and the mainboard and connectors are all pretty well soldiered and I'd bet coated in urethane spray from the looks of it. We don't get rain often here, but this morning the marine layer was thick and I was sending it for 5 batteries, drone was wet, beads of water on the lens, flew just fine. Thing just keeps impressing.
Poverty Flyer
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The Neo should have its own segment on the TV show "Indestructibles".
Like an old Timex watch "It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking".
I've crashed into almost everything except water.
Not even a scratch so far.
I try to be a very careful crasher.
Love my Neo.
Like an old Timex watch "It takes a licking, and keeps on ticking".
I've crashed into almost everything except water.
Not even a scratch so far.
I try to be a very careful crasher.
Love my Neo.
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I was shooting the ole standing gap and ran the neo's right duct in to my shin at a descant clip about 3 hours ago, didn't hurt me at all. Completely fractured the duct all the way around, but it held shape. So I treated it with some Gorilla Glue, the gel kind, and shaped it in there after a good cleaning of the area with alcohol. Now it will probably fly even better since this glue should balance well, with the glue on the motor support on the other side
Chrislaf
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Do you have some pictures of the repair job?I was shooting the ole standing gap and ran the neo's right duct in to my shin at a descant clip about 3 hours ago, didn't hurt me at all. Completely fractured the duct all the way around, but it held shape. So I treated it with some Gorilla Glue, the gel kind, and shaped it in there after a good cleaning of the area with alcohol. Now it will probably fly even better since this glue should balance well, with the glue on the motor support on the other side
Last winter I was out on the ice of our local lake with the NEO and when I hand launched there was a compass error and the NEO took off at high speed behind me and likely hit a cement barrier or rock. There was a few scuffs on the propeller guards and ducts and one broken prop but nothing else. Replaced the prop and it is flying fine to this day. The likely cause of the compass deflection was the rechargeable hand warmers I had in my pocket which attach to each other magnetically to create a single warmer.
Any one of my other drones would have been completely destroyed.
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Neo duct: 0, My shin bone: 1... lol
Flies exactly as it did before, I cleaned the area well, and used some strong stuff - ripped 5 batteries since and it's all good.
This was a previous injury from not pulling out of a dive well enough, broke clean through this support but the glue holds it well. I just check if it slaps something after a flight and redo the glue if necessary (rare).
I got replacement ducts etc from aliexpress, but after taking apart my first destroyed Neo I am going to do all I can to repair before attempting that, will need some ultra fine tooling skills to rebuild a Neo, it's tight in there.
Flies exactly as it did before, I cleaned the area well, and used some strong stuff - ripped 5 batteries since and it's all good.
This was a previous injury from not pulling out of a dive well enough, broke clean through this support but the glue holds it well. I just check if it slaps something after a flight and redo the glue if necessary (rare).
I got replacement ducts etc from aliexpress, but after taking apart my first destroyed Neo I am going to do all I can to repair before attempting that, will need some ultra fine tooling skills to rebuild a Neo, it's tight in there.
