Help!!! All 8 motors of quad co-axial multi-rotor drone stopped spinning in mid-air

[Kane1234]

Hi there,

I have a quad co-axial multi-rotor drone and crashed during loitering mode. The drone was hovering about 10 m from the ground in loiter mode and then all of a sudden ALL motors stop spinning and finally crashed.
About this drone,
- MTOW = 25 kg
- U-10 T-motors
- running on 10s Li-Po Battery (made from China)

What we have investigated so far
- Flight controller was still working even when the motors stopped spinning. The data log shows that the flight controller was giving command to the motor to go full throttle at the time when the motor stopped spinning. The flight controller stopped working during impact.

- The Li-Po battery voltage per cell seems normal after crashed (showing about 4V for a cells). However, the Li-Po battery was fully charged and left it fully charged for about 6 months though...

- No signs of burn marks on all electronics.

- 4 flight tests were performed 4 days before the crash and no signs of problems at all. The day of the crash, we did a morning flight test for about 5 mins and no signs of problems at all. But on that same day in the afternoon, the drone crashed.

- We are in the stage of checking the ESC and motors, we checked two of them so far and no signs of problems.

You guys have any idea on this?

 

[DroneTalk]

Check the batteries IR.

 

[Trevcharl]

Hi there,

I have a quad co-axial multi-rotor drone and crashed during loitering mode. The drone was hovering about 10 m from the ground in loiter mode and then all of a sudden ALL motors stop spinning and finally crashed.
About this drone,
- MTOW = 25 kg
- U-10 T-motors
- running on 10s Li-Po Battery (made from China)

What we have investigated so far
- Flight controller was still working even when the motors stopped spinning. The data log shows that the flight controller was giving command to the motor to go full throttle at the time when the motor stopped spinning. The flight controller stopped working during impact.

- The Li-Po battery voltage per cell seems normal after crashed (showing about 4V for a cells). However, the Li-Po battery was fully charged and left it fully charged for about 6 months though...

- No signs of burn marks on all electronics.

- 4 flight tests were performed 4 days before the crash and no signs of problems at all. The day of the crash, we did a morning flight test for about 5 mins and no signs of problems at all. But on that same day in the afternoon, the drone crashed.

- We are in the stage of checking the ESC and motors, we checked two of them so far and no signs of problems.

You guys have any idea on this?

I am not familiar with your setup, but most systems have supplies for the electronics and a supply for the ESC's. Although one does derive the power for the electronics from the same battery. The battery goes direct to ESC's but there is a feed off to a regulator that gives the 5v for the electronics. Motor stops. FC works, then something disconnected after the feed off for the regulator. If there is a PDB with a BEC, (Like I have) this would be difficult to analyse. For if the power went off the PDB there would be no power for the FC. Again if you used a BEC from an ESC for 5v to the FC and other modules, you would see the FC fail too! You need a wiring diagram for that unit, using the arguments above, you might just spot the problem.