Car charger design flaw

[lomposlapos]

The car charger can only charge one battery or the 4-battery charging hub. It can not charge the smart controller. Since both, 4 batteries and the SC has about the same battery life (2 hours), this means, you can recharge your batteries after 4 flights but still have a dead SC that either needs a 3rd party car charging solution (yet another piece of weight to drag around) or a trip back to the city.

 

[Magilla Gorilla]

Guess DJI figured if your in your car you already have some kind of USB to charge the controller with.

 

[zocalo]

The four battery charging hub has a connector to charge the RC. It's flush with the "brick" on the long thin edge, with the RC connector next to the the mains input, and needs to be pulled out which I assume is how you've managed to miss it? There's also a picture of it on the bottom of page 7 of v2.0 of the manual.

Either way, it's usually easier to just top up the RC via an in-car USB socket as Magilla Gorilla suggests, or use a powerbank.

 

[lomposlapos]

charge the RC

I am talking about the smart controller. Nothing to charge via the car charger.

 

[lomposlapos]

....so:

Am I correct? There is no point at all to drag the car charger along (it is another brick for a traveler), because the SC still needs a DC to AC power inverter, so I may just plug in both, the 4-battery charger and the SC charger in the inverter. The SC needs 3 A output, which few cigarette lighter USB chargers produce.

 

[Kilrah]

Why would you need a power inverter?! All you need is a USB-PD car charger.

Amazon.com: AUKEY USB C PD Car Charger with 39W Output, 27W USB-C & 5V/2.4A Dual Port for Google Pixel 2/XL, MacBook, iPhone Xs/Max/XR/X, Nintendo Switch and More: Cell Phones & Accessories

Amazon.com: AUKEY USB C PD Car Charger with 39W Output, 27W USB-C & 5V/2.4A Dual Port for Google Pixel 2/XL, MacBook, iPhone Xs/Max/XR/X, Nintendo Switch and More: Cell Phones & Accessories

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[lomposlapos]

Need 3 A output to charge the smart controller.

 

[Kilrah]

Not in 5V, it needs USB-C PD which this does, and is flexible as per the spec.

Another option, that one specifically has the 12V/3A mentioned in the specs. US$20.59 % NILLKIN DUOS Fast Car Charger Quick Charge 3.0 45W PD Dual USB Car Charger for Samsung S9 Xiaomi Chargers & Cables from Mobile Phones & Accessories on banggood.com