Mavic Pro Battery Mod

[sprtbkrydr]

Just educated guess bub. Had to retreive mine numerous times not making it back except once.
Edit: Will be doing LR again hopefully end of next week, need direct mod on Loki and wires didn't arrive yet. Cannot get myself to use battery clip, do not trust them tiny contact area's.

All you have to do is touch each leg with a little bit of solder and it works perfect. I'm still running the clip on mine now without any problems.

 

[TheLightSpeed!]

back in the Flytrex tracker days, when I would lose my bird in a tree lot I could check out the elevation report to see if it was on the ground or stuck in the tree before I even made the hike to go get it[emoji41]

Flytrex had it all man. What happened to those guys.

 

[beanbubba]

back in the Flytrex tracker days, when I would lose my bird in a tree lot I could check out the elevation report to see if it was on the ground or stuck in the tree before I even made the hike to go get it[emoji41]

You can get this in google earth / airdata today.

1) In your Airdata flight navigate to General=>Notifications=>Download-KML.
2) Open the KML file in Google Earth on your computer.
3) Navigate to the last event number on the Google Earth screen.
4) On the left menu bar, single click the event ID (21 in this example).
5) It will display the last reported altitude from your bird (see attached below).

This is how I found my prior crash that was up in a tree.

 

[Ed209]

Too windy for flying and was busy doing some landscaping. I did however dispose of some puffed up ticking time bombs that always made me paranoid!

 

[beanbubba]

Too windy for flying and was busy doing some landscaping. I did however dispose of some puffed up ticking time bombs that always made me paranoid!

How dare you trigger my environmentalist care of Mother Earth. I need to go find a safe space.

But did you get any cool pic's of them exploding/burning???

 

[Ed209]

How dare you trigger my environmentalist care of Mother Earth. I need to go find a safe space.

But did you get any cool pic's of them exploding/burning???

I discharged them a while ago and they were sitting in an ammo can filled with sand in my garage. I always worried about them. Fortunately, there was no explosion or fire. One of them smoked a little but I just threw some dirt on it. They are really **** tough even when standing on a shovel!

 

[ClaudioNC]

The weight of the 4000mah lipo is incorrect. It weighs much more, like 347g. I think you're off by a 100g.

Multistar LiPo 4000 mAh 10C weights 251 g

 

[sprtbkrydr]

Has this thread gone dead??

 

[frysie]

Tell me about it............ been waiting days for a reply lol

 

[TheLightSpeed!]

I'm dead in the water until the weather cools off some

 

[sprtbkrydr]

I always try to make my runs early in the morning right before the sun gets up bright.

 

[lolo780]

These will arrive next week, and planning to test each one with a stock battery, and then both together with no DJI battery.

 

[frysie]

I fly mine in 40 degree weather

I'm dead in the water until the weather cools off some

 

[Japtastic]

Considering trying a couple of these but are they 270g or 347g?

Turnigy 4000mAh 3S 30C Lipo Pack w/XT-60

The weather here has not been any good for long distance. 10mph at the surface or above since I did my last run and that's not changing for the next couple of weeks at least.

 

[lolo780]

The Thunderpower 4500 HV is 245g, so 270g for the Turnigy 4000 sounds about right.

 

[mavicpro1000]

Did some testing yesterday. Ran a hardwired 2200mah on top and got 28 mins hover, not bad I suppose. 2200 weighs 180g. Definitely louder with the extra weight!!

 

[sprtbkrydr]

Did some testing yesterday. Ran a hardwired 2200mah on top and got 28 mins hover, not bad I suppose. 2200 weighs 180g. Definitely louder with the extra weight!!

Do the motors get very hot when you let it Hover that long?

 

[mavicpro1000]

Yes they were hot. The mavic batt read 52 degrees!

 

[MacIak]

Considering trying a couple of these but are they 270g or 347g?

Turnigy 4000mAh 3S 30C Lipo Pack w/XT-60

The weather here has not been any good for long distance. 10mph at the surface or above since I did my last run and that's not changing for the next couple of weeks at least.

Should be 270g.

Yes they were hot. The mavic batt read 52 degrees!

I have gathered a whole bunch of temp readings somewhere in the thread carrying different packs. Although the batt goes up to 56 deg, the motors remained significantly cooler.

 

[dirtybum]

These will arrive next week, and planning to test each one with a stock battery, and then both together with no DJI battery.

cant wait to see your results lolo! please post.
Back when these came out I was very excited to try them because of how much lighter they were than everything else out there, even lighter than the multi stars, so I picked up pairs of 3.5 and 4.5 in 4S.
I tried them running saddle bag style on the P3 and the P4. and I'm sorry to say they absolutely sucked for me. Even with 9000 extra MAH I couldn't even get over 32 minutes on the P4 and they didn't do much better with the P3. I was so disappointed because they looked so promising, the problem is they never burned evenly with the main battery, they always had tons left in them and for externals that just doesn't work.
I currently am in the process of splitting them down to 3S. I wish they would've worked better because they're pricey[emoji41]