betonven
lvl.3
United States
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Hi everyone.
I was flying my P4P today. When I took off, I got a warning about the battery being too cold. That didn't make a lot of sense, cause outside the weather was very mild (Around 12 degrees Celcius). I've flown with much lower temperature conditions (2-3 degrees C) without ever getting any warning.
In any case, just to be safe, and as it would be practically impossible to raise the battery temp over 25 degC by just looking at it, I decided to just let it hover at around 3-4m height to 'warm it up'. Needless to say that I had to waste half of my battery time doing that (not cool). Then, I noticed that the red LED lights would stay on, without me getting any kind of warnings on my screen. The battery temp got higher than 25 degC, but the rear back LED lights would still be on. Strangely, whenever I was using my right stick (direction), the continious red light was replaced by blinking green (standard). Whenever I stopped using my right stick, it got back to continuous red.
It was kind of windy, but nothing too much, and eventually I flew two batteries without any problem, but with the red lights always on except when using the directions. I just was very nervous and didn't enjoy what would otherwise have been a nice photoshoot.
Any ideas? My Phantom has been showing several signs of weird behavior (apart from the above, I have some random jerking, and some weird 'hickups'), so I think after adding today's experience, I'm going to ask for a replacement, as I'm still within the return window. However, I'd like to understand what could be the problem.
Another issue, I'm mentioning it here so I don't start another thread, my focus is very problematic. 8 out of 10 times I tap to focus, the box starts from green and after less than a second becomes red. My footage doesn't look too bad, but still it's very annoying to not be confident about your shots. Any ideas?
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