I heard that the battery charger for the phantom 3 has been upgraded. Do we yet know what the charge time will be?

"96min with  57W charger, 60min with 100W charger" according to pre-sales support

It's a lithium battery right? You can get more juice out of a lion battery by charging slower

Michael M Posted at 2015-4-18 23:40
It's a lithium battery right? You can get more juice out of a lion battery by charging slower

The amount won't change and I'm sure the battery has been tested for being charged with the high current but overall yes, slower charging means longer battery life before it needs to be replacement with new one.

Michael M Posted at 2015-4-18 23:40
It's a lithium battery right? You can get more juice out of a lion battery by charging slower

Well technically it isn't Lion it's LiPo

Dmurph24 Posted at 2015-4-15 01:49
"96min with  57W charger, 60min with 100W charger" according to pre-sales support

It takes longer than an hour to charge, from 20% took 80 minutes for me today on the 4th charge.

I think I have an issue with 2 batteries or maybe the charger. It takes 12 to 14 hours to reach full charge on each at about 25%.

That does not sound right. 12 - 14hrs
Surely there must be an explanation for them, longer than usual, charges.
I wonder if those batteries are some how faulty within?

Charging batteries for that long, would practically ruin my day.  ;-)
Especially since we aren't supposed to leave them unattended.

RedHotPoker

Any way to charge multiple batteries at once off the same charger? I had a ghetto rig that I bought off amazon for my vision 2 plus that worked well. Anything like that out there?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/181 ... id%253D858621505814

owen@genzlinger Posted at 2015-7-1 04:08
Any way to charge multiple batteries at once off the same charger? I had a ghetto rig that I bought  ...

There will be a way soon:
http://www.smartpowercharge.com/proddetail.php?prod=SPCP3

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Phantom Help Posted at 2015-7-1 04:20
There will be a way soon:
http://www.smartpowercharge.com/proddetail.php?prod=SPCP3

My 13$ solution seems a little more my speed haha

owen@genzlinger Posted at 2015-7-1 08:18
My 13$ solution seems a little more my speed haha

For $500 - I'd much rather buy 3.5 additional batteries!

Every time I see that Smart Power charger I cringe at the price. Ouch!

60 min 15% to 100% for me with 100w charger.

dont know where to say this but if anyone is interested i made a study of percentage charge per minute so as to know how long to charge batteries for storage. i store them at between 40 and 50% charge. so the slow charger the 57 w one charges at 1.8 % per minute and the 100 w fast charger charges at 2.4 % per minute.  so i finish flying at 30 % and want to store at 40% i will charge for 4 minutes plus with fast charger and 5 minute plus with slow charger