So obviously after flying the battery generates a tremendous amount of heat and is quite warm after removing from the drone. I am in Florida, so many times the ambient air is already in the 90+ range when flying so this doesn't help matters. After flight, is it better to allow the battery 5-10 minutes to cool some before hooking it back up to the charger, or does it really matter? With the batteries being a $149 I am just looking for any way to help preserve battery lifetime expentancy as much as possible.
Battery Heat Cool Down Needed?
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You should let the batteries cool down before attempting to charge them. If they are too warm, the battery won't charge. The 4th LED on the battery will blink 3 times per second when it's connected to the charger and it's too warm to charge it.
The secret is to have more than one battery !!
Being in Florida - do you not have a Beer Cooler ? Seriously though - ambient temperature should be fine for charging. Leaving for a few minutes to settle to ambient is well worth it. Put it this way - if YOU as a human body are comfortable in it - then battery should be ok.
Nigel
Being in Florida - do you not have a Beer Cooler ? Seriously though - ambient temperature should be fine for charging. Leaving for a few minutes to settle to ambient is well worth it. Put it this way - if YOU as a human body are comfortable in it - then battery should be ok.
Nigel
Since my case is foam lined with cutouts for the batteries, I also just sit the battery in the back of my SUV for a while to cool down. Just to be safe, figure the foam might hold the heat in and slow cool down.
I tend to bring mine inside and lay them on the ac vent with the ac running. I live in central Texas and we are already hitting mid to upper 90s with heat indexes of 106+ so I'm only flying in the late evening 30/45 minutes before sunset right now. And that's my nightly run looking for deer and taking sunset pictures for the wife my price for my P3S lol here's a sunset for y'all.
Side note, that looks like a very tilted horizon... maybe do a gimbal calibration with the AC perfectly flat, then correct any camera tilt from DJI GO (gimbal settings).
Yes I noticed that after taking off but didn't really have time to land it and still get my pictures some of it is the land slight rolling hills
Lipo's like a bit of heat for best performance (charging and discharging), the trade off being service life. LiION chemistry charged and discharged at 45 deg C will deliver about half the cycles than if operated at 20 deg C.... you won't see 20 deg C at the end of a run in a phantom unless you are in a particularity cold climate. I don't stick a pack on the charger if it feels noticeably warm to the touch.
I put them in a ziplock and freezer for a few minutes. Only if I need to charge the batteries very fast for a mission. Beware of condensation.
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