Birthday was Saturday, and had several folks in the extended family pool together to buy me a drone/RC helicopter. Cool.
But since then I've had nothing but problems with it. Only managed to get it up and in the air once or twice, and only for maybe 2-3 mins each time. The LiPo battery charger has been problematic. I watched a bunch of youtube videos to make sure i'm charging the battery correctly, but it's just throwing what appear to be error codes at me most of the time, and the online error codes don't match what the manual says. It's been plugged in for about 8 hours now, and is still blinking red between the 2s and charge lights. Should have been more than enough time to drain that cell if it needed to balance.
I opened up the charger tonight to take a look, as some of the online "help" videos suggested some sort of a blown fuse channel, but I don't see anything like that.
However, there's this yellow gunk that shows up in two places, I am assuming it's some sort of glue or something but at least one of the locations is at the base of a capacitor.
Anybody able to identify this gunk? Am I good here, or bad? Tops of the caps don't appear to be bulging that I can see.
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