Hi everyone, I'm new here in the drones universe. I've just bought a Mini 3 and I was wondering if it's safe to use a laptop charger for charging the Mini3's battery. Below a photo of the charger output details. Cheers

Hi, Simulcop. Thank you for reaching out. We will coordinate this to our relevant team for further checking. We will keep you posted. Thank you.

Short answer: No.    Short explanation: Your laptop charger output voltage is too high.

Short answer: That charger will be just fine. Im using a similar one but from HP.

Long answer: The batteries/charge hub and the charger will do a handshake when connected and communicate the maximum allowed charge voltage which is 15V (according to the Mini 3 manual) and then the batteries will draw the amps they need. If a charger does not support 15V output they might fallback to 9V and if that is not supported then they will go with USB standard 5V.

ah! That'll  teach me! RTFM! ...

Hi, Simulcop. Thank you for patiently waiting. We now received feedback from our relevant team. Please confirm first if the charger support PD fast charge protocol, if yes, you may use the charger normally, which will automatically decrease the power; if it does not support PD charge protocol, the power will limit to 10W, which also can be used, but the charging time will increase. Hope this helps.

Thanks everyone for your replies. I'll check about PD charge protocol and update here.

I don't have a charging rack for batteries so any decent 5v wall-wart works for me but it's passing strange if they don't include a charger with the rack?

"Power cable is not included.
Specifications
Input: 100 to 240 V, 0.8 A, 50/60 Hz
Output: 5V/3A, 9V/3A ,12V/2.5A, 15V/2A, 3.3 to 11V, 2.72A"

nazgull Posted at 2023-6-16 08:01
Short answer: No.    Short explanation: Your laptop charger output voltage is too high.

I also use a lenovo 65w usbc laptop charger and everything works great.

All these Lenovo notebook chargers with USB-C now use PD 3.0, so should be safe to use. I charge my drone with 95w Lenovo charger and had no problems, the battery will pull just the power it needs, nothing more.