Jimharvey1
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Hey folks,
Bear with me here if this topic has been covered before. Seriously, I did review a good number of the battery issue posts for the Phantom 3 Standard but, GEEEZZZZ!!! There are two pages of them.
Anyway, I just picked this Phantom 3 Standard up from someone off Facebook Marketplace who apparently got it as a kid and flew it a few times, then put it in his closet and there it sat...he says for 6 years but I doubt that long. The single battery he sent with it doesn't seem to want to take a charge...at all, when hooked to a charger.
1. When I press the button to turn the battery on (1 short followed by a 2-second press) the red light on the button comes on along with one green light on followed by all 4 green lights sequentially when do the 2nd (longer) press, then one green light flashes a couple times, then they all go out.
2. When I press and hold the button 1 time, the red button lights up and on green light flashes 5 times, then all 4 green lights light up and the red button flashes 5 times, then everything goes out.
3 I attempted to turn the battery on and plug the battery charger in while that one light was flashing and initially it appeared to go into a charging cycle where all 4 lights sequentially were flashing...but then everything went out.
I read something about these batteries going into "hibernation" mode if stored for a long time.
I also heard that they are destroyed if stored discharged but it apparently isn't "dead" as the lights light up.
Any suggestions on how I may be able to salvage this battery,...or is it toast?
I have 3 other batteries from my son's Phantom 3 Standard and they all charge up fine on the charger, so the charger works fine.
The whole reason I bought this drone is to replace my son's Phantom 3 Standard, that I took with me on an RV trip and on the first flight, I was "air taxiing" back to the RV and while flying under a tree canopy, thought that if I hit "Return to Home" it would fly at that 10' air taxi altitude to the takeoff point by the RV and land. LESSON 1. That doesn't happen. It immediately climbed like a homesick angel to attempt to attain set RTH altitude. Unfortunately, the tree canopy was much lower than that programmed altitude and it crashed, breaking the camera loose from the gimbal (pitch motor separated in two pieces). I attempted too pop the motor back together and it worked...with video...initially...but the camera initialized at about a 30° angle. So in attempting to reattach the camera, I apparently sliced the ribbon cable in two.
My intent is to replace the son's drone with this newly acquired one and maybe get the broken gimble motor and ribbon cable replaced on his and keep it to play around with myself. I actually got my drone license and registration number to keep everything legal!
Jim Harvey
Jacksonville, FL
jimharvey1@comcast.net
(904) 307-7762
(if no answer, leave a message & I'll call back)
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