srdyiop
lvl.3
United States
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I have been using lithium ion batteries in power tools since they were invented never had a battery go bad, If I was Dji I would want all defective batteries returned so I could autopsy them all and see whats going on, determine the root cause of the failures.
I bought a aftermarket usb charger that adapts to my power tool batteries after a few months the battery was completely dead and would not charge, after researching I found out to restore the battery I just needed to take a good full charged battery and jump it with paperclips until I could feel the paper clips getting warm then disconnect, this puts enough charge into the battery so the circuit in the battery will work, I charged the battery and it works fine even after 20+ charge cycles its back to normal.
Lesson learned remove the battery from the usb charger between use, apparently the usb charger has a parasitic draw. If one of my power tool batteries fail I will autopsy to see the design I suspect they have a heat sink that cools the batteries since they never get hot even under extreme loads.
That said I WOULD NEVER DO THIS ON A DRONE BATTERY no matter how tempting, we do not need drones falling from the sky dirtying up droning reputations. After reading this topic I will remove all my drone batteries when not in use.
I also want to throw in I noticed that with my drone and remote control turned on setting on the table and me playing with settings the drone gets HOT HOTTER THAN I EVER EXPECTED I assume the cpu in the drone is overheating, the battery in the drone is also extremely HOT, the excess heat can not be good for drone batteries.
Lesson learned, anytime I power up the drone, elevate the drone set a fan in front of drone to simulate air flow over the drone including the bottom of the drone, then play with settings ! |
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