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Hi
I live in the UK and managed to catch 2 batteries with my P2V+V3 while the wind wasnt blowing. Totally still outside.
I was going up to max altitude. I was about 3/4 there and decided to max throttle, battery at 60%. All of a sudden the vision battery indicator icon started to flash red for about 2 or 3 seconds. During this time I filled my pants and released the throttle. The battery indicator went back to normal and read 60%. I brought "Icarus" down to 6 feet and watched it for a while before continuing to run Icarus around to 30%. At which point I switched batteries and went up to 500ft without a hicup.
It's a new battery with 4 charges through it.
Was full throttling putting too much of a load on the battery and causing a current drop or something? Could this be why some Phantoms drop out of the sky ... circuitry thinking the battery is low due to the load?
Oh hold on ... just looking at the small group of icons in the top right corner ... if any of those "error" does it cause all of them to flash red? or just the one that errors?
Phil
I live in the UK and managed to catch 2 batteries with my P2V+V3 while the wind wasnt blowing. Totally still outside.
I was going up to max altitude. I was about 3/4 there and decided to max throttle, battery at 60%. All of a sudden the vision battery indicator icon started to flash red for about 2 or 3 seconds. During this time I filled my pants and released the throttle. The battery indicator went back to normal and read 60%. I brought "Icarus" down to 6 feet and watched it for a while before continuing to run Icarus around to 30%. At which point I switched batteries and went up to 500ft without a hicup.
It's a new battery with 4 charges through it.
Was full throttling putting too much of a load on the battery and causing a current drop or something? Could this be why some Phantoms drop out of the sky ... circuitry thinking the battery is low due to the load?
Oh hold on ... just looking at the small group of icons in the top right corner ... if any of those "error" does it cause all of them to flash red? or just the one that errors?
Phil
