Battery cycles

[phantom pilot 3]

I have had a P3s for about 3 years and have no clue how many times I have used the batteries. I have 2 batteries but I never kept track of how many times I used them. Is there any way to tell how may times the batteries have been used?

 

[LarBear360]

The records may be in your flight log. Try airdata.com and open an account. Upload your latest flight log. There is limited battery info on the free version, including the number of charges on the battery used during that flight.

 

[phantom pilot 3]

Thanks I’ll try it

 

[Mark The Droner]

"Used the battery" and "battery cycles" are not quite the same thing. A battery cycle happens when enough discharge is made to equal one complete discharge. So two flights of launching at 100% and landing at 50% would equal one cycle. And so on...

You can use the lamps to get a rough idea of the so-called "life" of the battery. Hold the battery button in for 5+ secs until the lamps change, then let it out. The lamps will tell you how much "life" is left in the battery.

 

[LarBear360]

Partial report from my last flight using airdata. This is a cut & paste.

Associated Battery: Battery #5


Printed Serial
116**********

Internal Serial
187*********

Manufactured
13-Sep-2016

Battery Life
98%

Min Temperature
80.5f

Max Temperature
102.1f

Times Charged
13

Initial Capacity
4442 mAh

 

[RodPad]

There is a place in DJI-Go, that displays the serial# of the battery and how many times it has been charged, I found this Saturday when I was checking on how many days I had set on each battery for auto discharge.

The serial# would not always update when I changed batteries but the amount of charges would.

Rod

 

[msinger]

It's easiest to check the times charged in the following section of DJI GO:

As noted above, that value is only incremented after the battery has been charged from 0% to 100%. When looking at my above screenshot, that means that battery has been charged at least 10 times.

 

[RodPad]

Thanks for the picture,
Last night, between each battery, I closed the app, powered down the remote and Phantom.
This time I actually got 5 serial# for 5 batteries, instead of 3 serial# for 5 batteries.

Rod