Battery Cell Deviation

[Liamus27]

Hello

Should I be concerned about this (HealthyDrones.com - Innovative flight data analysis that matters)

It's a new battery (and new Phantom 3). Any help greatly appreciated.

 

[snowghost]

That's pretty normal. Just make sure you deep discharge every 20 cycles as indicated in the app.

I had a battery throw a ton of errors like that toward 20 cycles. Thought I'd have to return it. Did a deep discharge and the next flight had only two deviances a few seconds after launch on a 15 minute flight.

 

[Liamus27]

I'm currently breaking the battery in (as advised elsewhere) so thought that might be something to do with it. Thanks for the answer.

 

[msinger]

I'm currently breaking the battery in (as advised elsewhere) so thought that might be something to do with it.

DJI batteries do not have a break-in period. It might be helpful for other types of batteries though.

 

[Liamus27]

I've been doing this:

Do you break in your Lipos? Here's how...

Are you saying it's not necessary?

 

[msinger]

Are you saying it's not necessary?

Correct. It's not necessary.

 

[Liamus27]

Correct. It's not necessary.

Gosh, I love this forum but so much contradictory information makes your head spin knowing what's right and wrong!!

Thanks for your reply.

 

[msinger]

I love this forum but so much contradictory information makes your head spin knowing what's right and wrong!

Oh, you just wait. Someone will be in here any minute to tell me I'm wrong

 

[Liamus27]

That's pretty normal. Just make sure you deep discharge every 20 cycles as indicated in the app.

I had a battery throw a ton of errors like that toward 20 cycles. Thought I'd have to return it. Did a deep discharge and the next flight had only two deviances a few seconds after launch on a 15 minute flight.

How low is a deep discharge?

 

[snowghost]

IIRC it's down to 8%. I bought a battery discharger on Amazon which will bring it down to proper level.