Thursday, May 14, 2015

A Teardown of DJI Phantom 3

The DJI Phantom 3 is an easy to use, fully integrated package with an intelligent system that helps you fly. Its live HD feed streams directly from your camera, bringing you an immersive, vivid view of everything below.  Adding a new dimension, automatic video editing software and live streaming capabilities let you share what you see instantly. Let’s tear down the machine to have a better understanding of this product.
The same to DJI Phantom 2, each arm of DJI Phantom 3 comes with four holes.
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Start to tear it down.
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Phantom 3 are locked by Torx screws, you have to disassemble the machine with the suitable screwdriver.
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It is not easy to disassemble Phantom 3 after remove the screws. The arms are secured by the inside fasteners.
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Use the cards, finally found the positions of inside fasteners, (see the positions marked in red circles).
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Finally successfully open the Phantom 3.
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We can see from below picture that the inside constructure of Phantom 3 has already been greatly changed comparing to Phantom 2. It is an all-in-one circuit board, looks more clean and clear. The surface of circuit board is protected by waterproof coating.
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Open the 3-axis gyro case, we can see it is well-protected.
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There’s a SD card in the middle of main board to record flight data.
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The GPS, which is inside a shielding film, is the same to DJI Phantom 2.
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GPS not changed, still a universal one.
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Compared to Phantom 2 which contains a flight controller in the board center and four ESCs in the arms, Phantom 3 is a higly-integrated all-in-one circuit board, clean and clear. But is it good for heat radiation? What if some parts broken? We can replace the ESC of phantom 2 if damaged, but how if the ESC of Phantom 3 damaged? Send back to DJI for a repair?
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Continue to tear down Phantom 3.  Now comes the acoustic sensor positioning module, an important upgrade in Phantom 3.  What on the other board are RX and TX modules.
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Continue, tear down the acoustic and image sensor positioning module. Remove the four screws and directly open it.
The acoustic and image sensor positioning module.
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 The acoustic and image sensor positioning module.
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Tear down the TX and RX, totally four SMA fasteners,  the antennas are on the four foot stools.
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Remove the ribbon cables and fasteners.
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TX will be quite hot at work, so there’s a mini fan for heat radiation.
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Another picture.

Original Post: http://www.fpving.com/phantom-3-teardown/

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