Well I am just not sure what the 2nd battery will do, I don’t know if it will turn itself off. The change in Assistant will tell the drone it’s a different battery, but not communicate to the 2nd smart battery board. My only concern would be the 2nd battery shutdown.
Good point. I wonder how easy it is to remove the board from the battery...?
I destroyed a Mavic battery last night trying to get the board off. I could have avoided
This is an interesting read...
mavicpilots.com
Well my first test of an other than stock antenna with the 2 watt amp didn’t go well. So I have put this mod on hold. I had an extra dragon amp I was going to use but accidentally destroyed it by not using a solder wick to get the sma connector off the board, ripped up part of the pcb. So I have a splitter on order, and I’m going to try using both leg antennas as tx/rx with a dragon amp. I have also flipped the front legs around per @lolo780 ’s mod. Waiting on two protek 4100mahs to arrive then more tests. But I really don’t think I will ever need to do the birdside amp mod to get max, or 50K feet for that matter. But that’s the state of my modding thus far!!
I would love to lay my hands on a mavic Pro, it seems such a capable machine. What's your furthest distance so far?
I was worried after two miles with the Mavic air let alone 6 miles...
Thanks, lots of trial and error with my all diy set up. Only thing keeping me from max are the sideboard batteries. Multistar 3.0’s. And one of them has a cell that seems to be taking a dump. They are good to get you out to 40-45k. Also I desperately need to find a proper place to do a range test. As you see where I did my last 32k, it’s right outside of downtown Houston and in between take off and max point is a whole lot of inaccessible property should I need to land. It’s really my main issue.
I'm doing all my testing over sea, so it's kinda not the best place, but I haven't got many other places to test.
I was doing my range tests over water at first. I got sick of the drive, and got the better rc antenna set up, so now I need a long stretch of no where to try Incase something goes wrong
You managed anymore testing yet dude? It's been quite windy where I live for a while and have really struggled to get out with either the Mavic air or the Phantom standard....
I am going to see how the Mavic handles the 446 grams here shortly. Should have went this morning at 6-7am because of the heat. So I will at least zip her around a bit, but no long range today. I can’t find a suitable place to do a long range flight and it’s really beginning to be an issue. But I’ll put her in air to at least test the reverse front leg antennas, and see how she handles the 446.
Glad to hear you are able to get some flight time dude..
The dude at the top of the leaderboard says 550 grams is max that it handles well. Beyond that it’s dragging a s s. I think 1 8000mah strapped to the bottom plus stock battery is what he ran for 60 minutes.
Hell of a Pkg there Tex-!!
How the testing going dude?
Weather, heat, and Major League Baseball NFZ has kept me out of the air lately. I went to test a new set up with the 8watt amp on the RC Sunday, had a bad cable, came back swapped it out, went back and needed an RP SMA connector on the one I swapped out...so I have a cable that works now, but I am up against rain, and the mlb NFZ this evening.
