Mainboard and flight controller
Broken traces, burnt components, memory shaken loose. We solder on the board itself rather than replacing it, even when the part is no longer supplied.
Our speciality
We repair the electronics in your drone, not just the shell.
For an electronic fault, most repairers swap your drone’s whole board. That is fast, but expensive, and often unnecessary.
Nine times out of ten a single component worth a few cents has failed. We work under a stereo microscope with hot air and a fine iron: blown MOSFETs, torn traces, BGA chips shaken loose after an impact. That takes time, but the original electronics stay in your aircraft and the bill stays low. And it still works when a manufacturer stopped supplying the board long ago.
- Trace repair with 0.05 mm copper wire under a stereo microscope
- Hot-air station with a fixed temperature profile per chip type
- Measurements with scope and lab supply before and after the work
- Ultrasonic cleaning for moisture, salt and corrosion damage
- Works even when the original board is no longer supplied
Repairs
What ends up on our bench
Eight kinds of work we handle daily. Don’t see your problem here? Just describe it in your own words.
Gimbal and camera
Small motors that keep shaking, ribbons torn at the fold, an image hanging crooked or soft on one side. Often the result of thousands of folds.
Motors and ESCs
A motor that stutters, an arm that will not spin up, controllers blown after a crash. We replace the failed component, not the whole module.
Water and salt damage
Out of a ditch, a pond or the North Sea. Fast ultrasonic cleaning is the difference here between saving and binning. Do not switch the aircraft on to test it.
How it works
From request to back in the air
1
Tell us what happened
Fill in the form or call. Within one working day you get an answer with a first estimate and a shipping label.
2
Send the aircraft
Batteries can come with it, but not loose in the box. The confirmation email explains exactly how to pack.
3
You hear what is wrong
We open the aircraft, take measurements and send photos of what we found with a fixed price. We only start after your go-ahead.
4
Back with you
On average five working days after your approval, tested on a real flight outdoors and returned insured.
Ready to send your aircraft?
Briefly describe what is wrong. Within one working day you will know what it probably is and roughly what it costs.