Just out of curiosity does any one knows how many flights you are able to get from the phantom battery roughly before it becomes useless?
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Just out of curiosity does any one knows how many flights you are able to get from the phantom battery roughly before it becomes useless?
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There was a thread on this a while back that was for the Phantom 2 - suggesting that DJI says there are about 300 charge cycles in these batteries. That sounds about right to me, but I would also expect to see degradation of the flight time well before you get to the 300 mark.
as far as the p2 battery's go and the claim that they can last up to 300 charges is some thing that as far as any one is aware there is no one thats ever even gotten any thing close to 300 cycles on. Even 140 would be considered much better then average. Tho it seems that about 40 or so even seems to be a lot compared to how early they crap out on a lot of people.
Tho the p3 battery are different then the p3 battery's I would expect about the same life out of them as the p2s Being that I have already seen a few people who have had there's crap out with only about 20 charges. and I even have had one that went from being a 100% perfect battery to being perfectly ruined on charge 20 after foolishly takeing advise from dji and discharging it down to 8% and recharging. I should of known better to take any advise from dji on battery's being that That same thing also wreaked one of my p2 battery's on the 16th charge.
I don't want to get into an argument with J.James over whether you should follow DJI's battery advice or not. I do follow it. I find that it concurs with generally available LiPo battery information, and with what battery 'experts' have posted in peer reviewed (or commented) videos or articles.No way that's rubbish then I was thinking at least 200 charge cycle from them for the amount of money they cost as well. So you wouldn't recommend discharging the battery down to 8% ?
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Actually I think they do and I just read it a few days ago. I won't swear to it but I'm pretty sure I saw it in an official DJI video or piece of literature. Don't hold me to it, I'll see if I can get a confirmation and then we'll know.Where does DJI suggest going down to 8%? [snip].
I hear ya. There seem to be others who have had results similar to yours. I wonder if that's something that happens if you wait 60 or some other high number of cycles before dropping it to 8%. The battery isn't 'used to it' and the 8% is a shock (so to speak) to the system? I have to think that DJI has some very smart engineers who work full time on battery strength and life and make recommendations accordingly. Then again, they have some very smart plastics engineers who gave us potato chips for shells. Who knows?Thank you for the link StumbleBee
For the life of me I can't understand how/why their LiPo is so different from every other LiPo on the market. I have roughly 50 different LiPo in my arsenal and over the years I've personally proven (not intentionally) that taking it below the MIN level will cause a physical degradation of the cell make up immediately.
I'm fairly confident that unless they have magically created a new technology that their advice will come back to haunt them. As for me and my cells I don't even think I could force myself to take one down to 8%. Too many years training myself to stay well above those MIN levels.
I would like to see some long-term tests where a set of batteries are taken to 8% as suggested every 20 or so cycles compared to batteries that were never allowed to get below 20%. If they weren't so expensive I would do this myself but not at $150/ea.
Always happy to add to the confusion.
Which leads me to your avatar. I'm confused. It sort of looks like someone is playing jump rope with their own head. But that just doesn't make sense. Unless it is. So what is it?
I never noticed my Avatar is "cropped" like that into a circle.
I work with blueprints for a living and that is a guy (Screen Bean to be exact) looking at a blueprint.
I'm attaching the image in this post so you can see what I'm talking about:View attachment 32271
Blue prints... LOL! , don't look now but your age maybe showing.
(Is that ammonia I smell)
Seriously though, are blue prints still used? I did not realize that.
When DJI recommends 8% maybe they are talking about 8% showing on their app which is not 8% of the full battery capacity because they turn off Phantom before battery is fully discharged. With that said I did ruin a P2 battery by discharging until Phantom shut off and recharging after 20 cycles as was recommended by DJI manual.Thank you for the link StumbleBee
For the life of me I can't understand how/why their LiPo is so different from every other LiPo on the market. I have roughly 50 different LiPo in my arsenal and over the years I've personally proven (not intentionally) that taking it below the MIN level will cause a physical degradation of the cell make up immediately.
I'm fairly confident that unless they have magically created a new technology that their advice will come back to haunt them. As for me and my cells I don't even think I could force myself to take one down to 8%. Too many years training myself to stay well above those MIN levels.
I would like to see some long-term tests where a set of batteries are taken to 8% as suggested every 20 or so cycles compared to batteries that were never allowed to get below 20%. If they weren't so expensive I would do this myself but not at $150/ea.
After flying my batteries are usually around 20-30%. Should I keep them this way for a few days until I recharge, or should I charge it up to 50%?