Hi guys!
I wanted to share my experience from the other day.
I was filming in a park with rivers, I set the POI over a little bridge. The Tello accidentally flew over a small river, and Tello kept on falling down and eventually hit water. It drowned soon after, and here is when things get interesting.
First, the drone went underwater for like 5 - 10 cm, I completely stopped using the phone to control it, and started going closer to the drone.
Then, by itself, the drone just went up, exited the water, turned 180 around, and at an altitude of 1 m above the river started going back to the bridge.
I assume it tried get back to the POI.
Unfortunately, a small branch was close to the bridge, I could not control the drone at all, and miraculously, the drone stopped right in front of the branch, maybe it was just at the right distance to the POI, about 2 m from the bridge.
Unfortunately, it eventually did hit the branch and fell into the water. It was maybe half meter deep. I then proceeded to fish it out with a stick and this took about 10 min.
Once I took it out, I noticed the motors were full of small particles from the mud, so they were resisting and scraping when I tried turning the props by hand.
I took the battery out immediately, and rinsed the drone in the river to try to get out the particles. I knew that the Tello had some amazing water resistance so I was thinking if it has survived 10 min underwater a rinsing of a few sec cannot do more damage than it has already sustained. Slowly turning the props allowed me to grind out all the debris, so they started to turn normally again.
Went home, put it in the rice for 24, fired the drone up, and all was working flawlessly.
I believe that if I had not been using the TelloFPV app with the POI solution, I could have said bye to my drone, so thank you once again for this app, it is amazing what you did here.
I just wanted to write this post in hopes of giving hope if somebodies Tello falls into water, it should be fine!
I wanted to share my experience from the other day.
I was filming in a park with rivers, I set the POI over a little bridge. The Tello accidentally flew over a small river, and Tello kept on falling down and eventually hit water. It drowned soon after, and here is when things get interesting.
First, the drone went underwater for like 5 - 10 cm, I completely stopped using the phone to control it, and started going closer to the drone.
Then, by itself, the drone just went up, exited the water, turned 180 around, and at an altitude of 1 m above the river started going back to the bridge.
I assume it tried get back to the POI.
Unfortunately, a small branch was close to the bridge, I could not control the drone at all, and miraculously, the drone stopped right in front of the branch, maybe it was just at the right distance to the POI, about 2 m from the bridge.
Unfortunately, it eventually did hit the branch and fell into the water. It was maybe half meter deep. I then proceeded to fish it out with a stick and this took about 10 min.
Once I took it out, I noticed the motors were full of small particles from the mud, so they were resisting and scraping when I tried turning the props by hand.
I took the battery out immediately, and rinsed the drone in the river to try to get out the particles. I knew that the Tello had some amazing water resistance so I was thinking if it has survived 10 min underwater a rinsing of a few sec cannot do more damage than it has already sustained. Slowly turning the props allowed me to grind out all the debris, so they started to turn normally again.
Went home, put it in the rice for 24, fired the drone up, and all was working flawlessly.
I believe that if I had not been using the TelloFPV app with the POI solution, I could have said bye to my drone, so thank you once again for this app, it is amazing what you did here.
I just wanted to write this post in hopes of giving hope if somebodies Tello falls into water, it should be fine!