Has these guys ALL been taking the best care of them or not according to what you know. nigel and shared with the club...even those that know how to " Fail " !.....and battery life go's down the drain..Dji or not.....You know that Geeeeeeee too bad it got ripped open....dji would have replaced it Free and if they never wanted it they could have send it to me !
It was a decision to find out how the battery worked and to see if we could improve it - we are experienced LiPo users and not new kids on the block who need Nanny'ing on batterys.
The battery could have been sent back for replacement - of course. But you have to remember that we are in Latvia ... and we only have sub-agent DJI ... they refer back to Netherlands all the time. The time delay / the costs etc. - with price of the batterys we were already using (non DJI) being only 50% of DJI price ... its a situation that just bite bullet and move on.
People tend to forget that there is a wide world out there and not just USA ... things are not so easy when you have no direct dealer to work with.
The opening up in fact showed us a lot and also various tricks we could pull if needed. Please do not ask as I am not ready to have arguments about them. Lets just say we know how to reset the batterys .... balance them ... get max out of them ... but all tricks will null and void warranty's etc. and in wrong hands could be disaster.
On the point of taking best care etc. The failure of the DJI was the board itself and not any cell. Second that DJI batterys have built in overload / overdischarge / temperature cut-outs that effectively prevent most common mistakes of LiPo users. The P3 will not demand greater amps than the battery designed to supply - they are a matched system. The P3 will land out if you push the battery too long. The charge system is a power brick that cannot supply more amps than is safe to charge and the control board in the battery shuts off when total voltage is reached.
You would have to be pretty brutal and use some bad non DJI gear and tactics to NOT take care of the DJI battery. Even storing full charged is taken care of by auto-discharge !
Sorry but there is a lot of BS spread about these batterys ....
Final point : I would always but DJI Original batterys - IF I can buy at sensible price. But considering that DJI do not manufacture the batterys and buy in from 3rd party factorys ... at last count I found 3 different factorys supplying ... then I am sure there are plenty of non genuine out there working just as good as the ones myself and others in our club use.
On the point of warranty of the P3 ............ when I presented my P3P for repair when FW bricked it ... they noted my non DJI battery (I forgot to remove from my back-pack). They made comment ... but warranty went through and P3P was repaired FoC.
Maybe myself and club are lucky ... who knows ... but I know this. I have no worry to go out there and fly with any battery I have ... genuine and non-genuine.
Nigel