Pretty much exactly what happened to me. Spare battery turned up so I took her out for the first flight to start wearing her in. Was up fairly high and got the critical battery error and couldn't see how much power was in the battery. Didn't bring it back down straight away which wasn't the best choice but when I did I could see that the battery now had a slight gap between it and the housing. This new battery really needs pushing in hard and then to be sure I try pulling it out to be certain it's in there firmly. Maybe it's a new design or something.
Another P3P down! Battery Error
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Pretty much exactly what happened to me. Spare battery turned up so I took her out for the first flight to start wearing her in. Was up fairly high and got the critical battery error and couldn't see how much power was in the battery. Didn't bring it back down straight away which wasn't the best choice but when I did I could see that the battery now had a slight gap between it and the housing. This new battery really needs pushing in hard and then to be sure I try pulling it out to be certain it's in there firmly. Maybe it's a new design or something.
I thought of the #2 csc, and should be corrected by DJI engineers, to have an addition toggle to throw prior to emergency csc. I have read this happening too much. In my case in was in a hover mode only after 58 seconds of flight, got a battery error, "not enough battery power to return home" and then loss of control of p-2, loss of fpv and then abrupt loss of power. she came straight down. My battery was well seated. If you read some threads, there is mention of battery contacts having to be cleaned, which causes some battery errors. DJI engineers need a "black box" data logger for all onboard data to determine mysterious crash causes. Just my thoughts.
This happened to me 3 times. 2 were battery failure and 1 was connector to one of esc's came loose (my fault). Can the battery be charged back to full, and if so can the P3 be powered up? What I'm getting at is mine went from 79% to 10% battery in a flash and fell from the sky before I could get back. When I tried recharging, it acting though it was normal until it got to 2 green bars and shut off. Pressing the button on the battery showed a full charge, all green bars. Assistant SW showed full charge, but when used again in a new P2, it did same routine showing full battery but just a couple minutes later it when to critical low battery warning and tried to land a few seconds and then cut off. Luckily I was standing next to it and caught it. I suspect a bad cell. So I am not surprised at any possibility of a battery malfunction, so far it has been the Achilles heel for these drones. So if you still have the battery and can power the P3 up, try a static run to see what results you get, may help narrow down possible causes.
In my case its some type of intermittent battery failure sensing, which initiates a failure warning on the FPV monitor before complete loss of power. What is really strange is the P-2 appeared to fly okay and maintain hover immediately after the loss of power and crash. Needless to say, I only attempted that test at a low hover to see if the aftercraft was okay and if it would power up and fly after the crash. There is something going on in the intelligent battery design and how it may communicate with the onboard computer to diagnose correctly what is happening.
Can't find fault with you. I wasn't there so can't be witness to anything. But...
Does anyone else find it interesting that you got your Phantom up to almost 400 feet, had 14 minutes of flight time still remainig *and* your battery level was rated at 94%? Shouldn't it have consumed much more battery power than that to climb that high? Then you went forward full throttle.
Again, since I wasn't there, it's impossible to say the battery wasn't fully inserted. But is it possible that the battery in some way was defective and created some kind of over-voltage spike? Again, that just seems to be an inordinate amount of remaining power for what you had already done.
On the one hand, your composure was amazing. One of my first flights with an RC plane consisted of telling the wife to start the timer, taking off, turning left and slamming into a big magnolia tree. As the leaves stopped rustling and I was tempted to scream F--K at the top of my lungs, my wife says "...is it okay if I stop the timer now?" It was actually hilarious.
Hope you get your bird fixed/replaced soon.
The total flight time was 1 minute and 26 seconds. It took 26 seconds to go from 6ft to 390ft.
I already sent the P3 to DJI. I purchased another that I have not gotten a chance to fly other than once to see if the camera and everything else was working right. I was very scared to fly it since the last flight before that didn't end up so well. Hopefully I will get over it soon.
Only one battery. After the accident, I took a look at the battery info on the DJI Pilot app and it only showed 20 charges. I would charge the battery after each use. Only 2-3 times when I was testing out the P3 with Prop Guards, I flew for a couple off minutes and I did not charge. That makes me wonder why it only showed 20...
If by recycle you mean let it die completely and then recharge, I believe I did that once. I think it was a couple of flights right l before the accident.
I performed a drop test on a P3 from 2 feet and the battery popped out every time. None of the battery clips broke.
The crash was one year ago and I didn't present them with any video or anything other than returning the damaged Phantom to them and explaining the problem.
My P-2 Vision plus 3.0 is at DJI as of Thursday. They say it can take up to 6 weeks in que. I sure hope that this is not the case. Much too long to make a determination if you are going to replace a customer's item, or not.
Mine took around that long but everything including the batteries were replaced.
That is great to hear. As long as they take care of me, I will have nothing but good to say.
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