Recent content by Tom Greene

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    Battery smoking in flight catching fire

    OEM purchased with drone
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    Battery smoking in flight catching fire

    when it crashed the battery separated and that's a pic on the ground of it smoking. Battery compartment on drone melted off. Everything was sent to DJI and they sent back the drone and camera. All charred remnants were kept by DJI stating too hazardous to ship.
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    Battery smoking in flight catching fire

    I had immediately contacted DJI and they asked me to ship it to them. They provided the shipping labels. Everything went back, they said they could repair for $661. I expected it would be covered. 2 months later I got my damaged drone back (not repaired) and they kept all the burnt parts...
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    Battery smoking in flight catching fire

    While flying phantom 3 pro at 200' for approximately 6 minutes smoke was observed trailing drone. Attempted to land on residential street as smoke increased. At 83' drone quit and dropped from the air trailing smoke. DJI states no errors noted, must have over heated in hot weather. I sent...