My team had a battery failure mid-flight a couple months ago, exactly like this one:
crash
The thing dropped from 150 ft up, breaking off the camera and ruining the frame.
The battery had maybe 70 flights on it, and we take good care of equipment.
We had DJI fix the drone for far less cost than I expected, but it made me worry about these kinds of failures.
I had to buy some more batteries and started reading reviews.
Turns out several people have reported these sudden failures.
DJI is out of stock on their batteries, so I looked at aftermarket ones.
I see the same failure reports here and there.
In another thread, I called that "a lot", and we have three phantoms and 10 batteries, and have done about 300 missions over a few years.
So one out of 10 batteries failing is not good, and worse if you say one out of three phantoms, if they were the cause.
You can find reports from others by looking at battery reviews on amazon, or forums.
My solution is a parachute, as that will give people time to react if a failure happens over them by chance.
In the end, I wonder if buying DJI batteries is worth the cost, compared to aftermarket. I don't think dji batteries are special, and the one that failed for us was an original battery. I think its the drone itself that caused this, and several others have even said they re-used the battery that was in the crash. I won't do that though.
thanks
crash
The thing dropped from 150 ft up, breaking off the camera and ruining the frame.
The battery had maybe 70 flights on it, and we take good care of equipment.
We had DJI fix the drone for far less cost than I expected, but it made me worry about these kinds of failures.
I had to buy some more batteries and started reading reviews.
Turns out several people have reported these sudden failures.
DJI is out of stock on their batteries, so I looked at aftermarket ones.
I see the same failure reports here and there.
In another thread, I called that "a lot", and we have three phantoms and 10 batteries, and have done about 300 missions over a few years.
So one out of 10 batteries failing is not good, and worse if you say one out of three phantoms, if they were the cause.
You can find reports from others by looking at battery reviews on amazon, or forums.
My solution is a parachute, as that will give people time to react if a failure happens over them by chance.
In the end, I wonder if buying DJI batteries is worth the cost, compared to aftermarket. I don't think dji batteries are special, and the one that failed for us was an original battery. I think its the drone itself that caused this, and several others have even said they re-used the battery that was in the crash. I won't do that though.
thanks