After about 100 flights, I tried something aggressive even though I had heard the low battery notification (all my fault, no Spark malfunction). Once critically low battery notification went off, it landed where it was at, which was 300 feet away...into a creek (2 feet of water).
I couldn't find it as the sun was setting. I used (for the first time) the Find My Drone feature in Go 4 app. It was really helpful! I located it this morning in 2 feet of water. It was submerged for 12 hours. It's in fine shape - no scratches or abrasions of \any kind. But, it's soaked. I took battery out and it's sitting on a towel right now.
It seems like this has been mentioned here before - people landing or crashing in water and being able to get their Spark (or other quad) back. I looked and couldn't find old posts. Have any of you experienced this and brought your Spark back to life?
If so, what did you do? Is there a chance if I am patient and let it totally dry out (how long will that take?), will it be alright? Somehow, I'll bet the intelligent flight battery is toast.
Anyways, any insight would be greatly appreciated! And, yea, I realize this was just careless on my part. A hard lesson learned... don't mess with a low battery - period.
I couldn't find it as the sun was setting. I used (for the first time) the Find My Drone feature in Go 4 app. It was really helpful! I located it this morning in 2 feet of water. It was submerged for 12 hours. It's in fine shape - no scratches or abrasions of \any kind. But, it's soaked. I took battery out and it's sitting on a towel right now.
It seems like this has been mentioned here before - people landing or crashing in water and being able to get their Spark (or other quad) back. I looked and couldn't find old posts. Have any of you experienced this and brought your Spark back to life?
If so, what did you do? Is there a chance if I am patient and let it totally dry out (how long will that take?), will it be alright? Somehow, I'll bet the intelligent flight battery is toast.
Anyways, any insight would be greatly appreciated! And, yea, I realize this was just careless on my part. A hard lesson learned... don't mess with a low battery - period.