Hello Guys,
I've gone through 5 different Mavics, pushing them to their max flight distances. One thing I've noticed is that 2 of my Mavics that were manufactured in July and August this year have superior performance over my other older builds which are from 2016 and one from around Feb-March 2017. I see consistently 2 more minutes flight time and 4-5K extra feet of distance covered when using the same battery and propellers (stock form). I can fly the new ones at 31mph for 23 minutes and the older ones no more than 21 minutes. Basically a 10% difference in efficiency.
I'm not sure when DJI made the changes in their production, but definitely something was done that impacts the flight time. For anyone that is trying to modify and do long range, you definitely want the recently built Mavic or upgrade to the Platinum. I think there is not much difference in performance between the Platinum and the recent Mavic Pro builds. Maybe 30 seconds difference in battery at most if you use the Platinum props.
Now I finally understand why UnknownCaller was able to fly so much father than me using the same setup. I could not get more than 39 minutes and he was getting 43 minutes flight time using same external batteries and same flight speed.
I've gone through 5 different Mavics, pushing them to their max flight distances. One thing I've noticed is that 2 of my Mavics that were manufactured in July and August this year have superior performance over my other older builds which are from 2016 and one from around Feb-March 2017. I see consistently 2 more minutes flight time and 4-5K extra feet of distance covered when using the same battery and propellers (stock form). I can fly the new ones at 31mph for 23 minutes and the older ones no more than 21 minutes. Basically a 10% difference in efficiency.
I'm not sure when DJI made the changes in their production, but definitely something was done that impacts the flight time. For anyone that is trying to modify and do long range, you definitely want the recently built Mavic or upgrade to the Platinum. I think there is not much difference in performance between the Platinum and the recent Mavic Pro builds. Maybe 30 seconds difference in battery at most if you use the Platinum props.
Now I finally understand why UnknownCaller was able to fly so much father than me using the same setup. I could not get more than 39 minutes and he was getting 43 minutes flight time using same external batteries and same flight speed.
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