Question - Recharging your Batteries

[Tomcat16]

I would like to know when you recharge your batteries, soon after you have flown or just before you go out to fly?
Thanks for your help!

 

[My Drone Adventures]

Depends. If you are going to fly again, right away. If it will be more the. 24 hours I wait. It also depends on how low you let the battery go. If 30-40% just wait if 15% I would charge it to 50-60% then top them off the night before I plan to fly.

 

[zeusfl]

I always wait 30 minutes at least to make sure they cool down to ambient temperature before charge the batteries.

 

[hiflyer201]

I jerk the battery out after landing and find a cool spot to set it. I charge it when it's cooled. I'm in a location where I could fly every day and I like to keep the batteries charged but I usually just do a fairly short flight and I'm considering using just one battery and allowing the other two to sit in a discharged state. I wonder if anyone might have thoughts on doing something like that. Charging just before a flight doesn't appeal to me.

 

[Gealousy]

I keep mine stored at 50% and charge the battery I’m going to use within 24 hours of use. Or batteries if I’m planning to fly longer than one batt. Rotating the batteries sequentially as I roll through life.

 

[Tomcat16]

Depends. If you are going to fly again, right away. If it will be more the. 24 hours I wait. It also depends on how low you let the battery go. If 30-40% just wait if 15% I would charge it to 50-60% then top them off the night before I plan to fly.

Right now I'm still learning, so I take all my batteties with me and fly them all to about 15 to 20 percent. Thanks for your comments.

 

[mschaffer66]

I leave one battery in the drone and the other two on the charger. Probably not advised...but its what I do

 

[Mike4884]

Right now I'm still learning, so I take all my batteties with me and fly them all to about 15 to 20 percent. Thanks for your comments.

This is fine although I think 15% is a little low I would try to keep it at 20%, you do not however need to charge it to 50 to 60% for storage that is too high and no need to actually put your battery on the charger after flight all I do is simply go out and fly and bring my drone in when it's about 20 to 25% the correct storage voltage for a lipo is around 3.75v per cell even 3.70v is ok albeit a little low for my taste I'm guessing this is what 20% is getting you but it is totally fine.

 

[Mike4884]

I keep mine stored at 50% and charge the battery I’m going to use within 24 hours of use. Or batteries if I’m planning to fly longer than one batt. Rotating the batteries sequentially as I roll through life.

Most of what you are doing is okay but if you have to charge your battery back up to 50% after flying this is just a habit that you do not need to do essentially you can put your batteries away at about 25% I'm not sure when you stop flying but if you stop flying at 50%, you definitely have more battery you can fly.... so I'm pretty sure you are not doing that. You are most likely ending up at 25 to 30%? If so then you are fine and this is a great storage voltage per cell this equals out to about 3.75v per cell or 3.80 per cell if leaving it at 30% this is what a storage voltage looks like for a lipo. Just throwing out a suggestion you can manage your batteries however you want to but the extra step of charging to 50% is definitely not needed and if you are stopping flight at 50% then you are wasting battery my man and you could fly a little more

 

[My Drone Adventures]

This is fine although I think 15% is a little low I would try to keep it at 20%, you do not however need to charge it to 50 to 60% for storage that is too high and no need to actually put your battery on the charger after flight all I do is simply go out and fly and bring my drone in when it's about 20 to 25% the correct storage voltage for a lipo is around 3.75v per cell even 3.70v is ok albeit a little low for my taste I'm guessing this is what 20% is getting you but it is totally fine.

Storing your batteries between flights at 50-60% is ideal for me as I want to be able to charge them the rest of way in short order.
If DJI thought it was necessary to keep them between 20-30% the discharge algorithm would continue to discharge below 60%.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but I have had a lot of quads in my life and never had a battery fail on me with each quad having 4 or 5 batteries. (Not counting the OG Bebop that just had bad batteries and charger)

For the newbies, start with what the manufacturers suggests, then listen to all of us and our preferences.