Our resident drone Expert Chris Fravel reviews the Mavic 3 PRCS portable battery charger from Colorado Drone Chargers.

[The Droning Company]

Mavic 3 PRCS by Colorado Drone Chargers: 4 Batteries Charged at Once

 

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Mavic 3 PRCS by Colorado Drone Chargers: 4 Batteries Charged at Once

It's not really portable, because you have to plug it in.

 

[moldorf]

my thinking is a portable charger should work on a 12V system, in either a car or an RV

but that's probably an irrelevant criticism

the relevant criticism is a $795 price tag!!....wut? That's crazy. You can get 4 Mavic 3 batteries AND a DJI charging hub for less that that (Amazon)

 

[sar104]

I have the Mavic 2 version of this charger. It's not intended for recreational use, but it has two specific use cases:

1. If you need to be able to fly continuously for unlimited periods;
2. If you need to bring multiple batteries at storage level to full capacity in as short a time as possible.

Yes - it really requires a decent generator to power it once mobile, but for search and rescue operations, for example, that's not a problem.

 

[BSauce955]

So I'm trying to figure out if I'm just seeing things or are there really 8 battery spaces. I haven't heard any mention of charging for 8 (I assume 4 charge then the other 4 charge), but nowhere in the article is it mentioned. It's also not mentioned on the Colorado Drone's website either. So my question is, does one of the charging ports act as a "dummy" simply for storage and then you swap the batteries out when they finish charging, or is it automatic, after one set finishes, it switches to the other?

 

[Anthony Ivory]

I’m not sure but you can probably go all day rotating 3 to 4 batteries.
If you are getting 30 min flight time with an hour or so recharge you can fly all day.
$795 buys almost 4 M3 batteries. Hmmm