u/Fantastic-Speech-438

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I'm genuinely interested in this from an engineering and product longevity standpoint. What is going on internally when the camera is turned off and the gimbal is in parked / storage mode to keep everything locked, because I have noticed that if the camera is not stored in the clamshell case or a gimbal protector (i.e. stored loose in the soft case) then one or more of the gimbal axis can unlock by accident.

Axis 3 (tilt) is obviously some sort of basic magnetic lock as this is the axis that I see people have the most trouble with it coming loose and rolling around when in storage. But what about axis 1 (pan) and 2 (roll)? Pan feels really solid when the gimbal is parked but I've found that axis 2 can sometimes break away from the lock when inserting into the clamshell case using the 'gimbal first' method DJI say to use in their video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlsC1h_Pbhs . It feels as if the pan axis uses some sort of mechanical indent / groove rather than a magnetic lock. Would this wear out over time?

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u/Fantastic-Speech-438 — 17 days ago