Recent content by Frank Ross

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    More Battery wows

    yorlik, I flew the other day and the battery did almost the same thing, it flew until it said about 6 minutes left then dropped to where it wanted to fly home. I was hovering close to home in anticipation of this happening. When I check the battery at home it was saying 7% left. I ran the...
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    More Battery wows

    I read to not let the cell voltage go below 3.0 volts. The lowest cell was above 3.0volts. I've been told they are like NiCads and a cell can reverse. It is almost a full charge now. Thanks again. Frank
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    More Battery wows

    Yourlik, I ran the battery down like you suggested. although I only had it two feet off the ground it started to come home and land. Vision said there was quite a bit of battery left (24%) so I restarted the motors and ran it down to 0%. I then went in the house and the Phantom would still...
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    More Battery wows

    Yes, the battery was fully charged, I did a recycle on it by taking it down to 8% and doing a full charge. I checked it this morning and still three LEDs lit. I think I will take it out in the backyard and see if I can run it down. Perhaps it was a false reading of 8% when I performed the...
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    More Battery wows

    I am fairly new to this hobby. Today a flew my P2V+ which I purchased used. After approximately 5 minutes or so I got the low battery signal and the P2V+ came home and landed. This evening I decided to put the P2V+ on "Assistant" and check the battery, only one LED lit and it was blinking...
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    New Quadcopter Op.

    Hello to the group. My name is Frank and I am very new to the hobby. I purchased a Phantom 2 Vision Plus from a friend. He has been helping me get started and pointed me to this group. The group has already answered a question of why I could not set the battery warning level. I just...