Wolferl
Second Officer
Flight distance : 23793 ft
Austria
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Tentoes Posted at 3-15 09:10
I had good luck charging spark from my phone's high rate car charger, but once I was out with Sully in his BMW and the built in usb port never managed to put any charge into the drone. I'm guessing the drone asked for lots of amps, like 2, which was beyond what the built in usb port would deliver.
Hi Tentoes,
Yeah there seems to be some "logic" built into this. If I plug the USB cable into a USB 3.0 port on my laptop, it does only supply current the Spark, so you can mount the SD card, but not charge (150mA @ 5 volts). As soons as you put the Spark USB cable to a "dumb" charger which i capable to output 2 amps or more, it works.
The USB ports in the BMW are designed to be used with USB flash sticks for your music etc, so that may stop the Spark to use it for charging. I know because I'm owning a BMW myself *g*
So I'm just using a cheap cigarette lighter adapter for USB to charge the Spark with it.
Cheers,
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