Beautiful winter day here but wicked cold, 15 degrees F. I know I must keep the batteries warm until ready to go. What would be the coldest temp that would be OK to make a short 10 minute flight?
my batteries are room temp (67F) when I pop em into my P3A in the house. I turn on the quad then go outside. After its warmup, I have flown 15F and didnt have an issue with the quad, no loss of power, no screen messages. I am running 1.6 firmware on the battery. The only problem I had was numb thumbs after 10 minutes of flight, landed with 54% battery left. Max bat temp from log was 80F during flight.Beautiful winter day here but wicked cold, 15 degrees F. I know I must keep the batteries warm until ready to go. What would be the coldest temp that would be OK to make a short 10 minute flight?
Flying a p2, but I have no problem burning 4 batteries at -20F, up here in Alaska. As long as I keep the batteries warm, usually in the car. Not sure about a p3 though.You could do some searches. Many people have reported flying in Alaska and near the arctic circle at temps below zero F with great success.
"His cold" should read as "How cold". Strangest thing is that when I first posted this thread it read His even though I was pretty sure I typed How. It now reads as How. I did not edit it myself. Could an administrator of the site make the change? Either way it's correct now. Also, the replies so far give me the confidence to fly today. YES!!Flying a p2, but I have no problem burning 4 batteries at -20F, up here in Alaska. As long as I keep the batteries warm, usually in the car. Not sure about a p3 though.
"His cold" should read as "How cold". Strangest thing is that when I first posted this thread it read His even though I was pretty sure I typed How. It now reads as How. I did not edit it myself. Could an administrator of the site make the change? Either way it's correct now. Also, the replies so far give me the confidence to fly today. YES!!
when you fly in such cold weather, do you notice the focus of the lense changing? I ask because DJI says that the lense can become out of focus if you operate outside of their stated operating temperature range.Here in Canada, it was 21 below zero C yesterday, or -6 F. I did the warm up inside and waited until the "safe to fly non GPS" message appeared then went outside to get the GPS" lock" to launch.
When it's that cold I do watch my voltage and I don't try to fly 23 minutes wide open throttle. I ascend less than wide open and I restrict my ground speed to around 30 mph just to keep from swinging the voltage draw during the cold flight.
I'd say from that, you'd be fine anywhere except the moon.
Beautiful winter day here but wicked cold, 15 degrees F. I know I must keep the batteries warm until ready to go. What would be the coldest temp that would be OK to make a short 10 minute flight?
when you fly in such cold weather, do you notice the focus of the lense changing? I ask because DJI says that the lense can become out of focus if you operate outside of their stated operating temperature range.
Might as well go ahead and spell too correctly while you're at it."His cold" should read as "How cold". Strangest thing is that when I first posted this thread it read His even though I was pretty sure I typed How. It now reads as How. I did not edit it myself. Could an administrator of the site make the change? Either way it's correct now. Also, the replies so far give me the confidence to fly today. YES!!
It is an infinite focus lense, cold causes things to contract and heat to expand so the materials the lense is mounted in will actually be smaller albeit by a very small amount but when you are talking about focusing a lense that very small amount matters.The only reason the lens would be out of focus is moisture inside.... It is a fixed focal length is it not?
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