Recent content by Gary in NJ

Are the batteries swollen? There should be an airgap between the gray battery cover and the white structure. If the battery is swollen to the point where the white structure is deformed, that would make the battery difficult to insert and extract. I recently started a thread about the condition...

So my batteries aren't perfect. I can get about 13 minutes of flight out of them. Upon closer inspection they are slightly swollen. I've used each about 5 times now and the percentage used is linear and reliable. I'll continue to use them for short flights, but I'm gonna purchase a new pack from...

Last night I flew both batteries and both lasted just 9 minutes. Same pattern as the previous night, the battery pack tanked quickly after reaching 60%. With the PV2+ safely on the ground I decided to run it at a high idle so I could completely drain the battery. It stayed at 8% for 5 minutes...

I updated every bit of software this evening and went flying. Everything worked perfectly. Once the batteries dropped below 60% they tanked fairly quickly. Hopefully a few complete discharge cycles will help stabilize them. Thanks for the help and advice.

Interesting. I searched this forum yesterday to learn how to recondition my batteries after 18-20 months of disuse. I certainly didn't put them away are store them properly, so after a few minutes of reading I was convinced that the batteries must be toast. So last night I retrieved my P2V+...

I purchased a Phantom 2+ Vision in the summer of 2014. I flew the crap out of that thing that summer and then put it away for the winter - and haven't flown it since. Back when I was flying it there were many Firmware releases that gave people all sorts of trouble. I never updated my firmware...