Can anybody tell me how to use the new battery discharge feature? I cannot find this answer anywhere.
birdheezy said:My question: i usually charge to 100% after flying and then discharge to 50% for long storage, would it be better to just charge half way to 50% and leave it?
ianwood said:How exactly does a battery that is not connected to anything discharge itself? That energy needs to go somewhere. Very confusing. And typical of DJI to trumpet a new feature and then not provide any detail about it. They can trumpet all they want but they need to get off their pedestal, come hang out with the riff raff and tell us what's what. Or maybe consider providing real documentation.
I think it would be much better if you could do a special button press on the battery before connecting it to the charger and it will only charge up to 40%. That would make the most sense. I don't want a situation where I charge a battery and when I'm on a shoot, it happens to be the 48th hour and it starts to discharge itself. Even worse, what if you're on a plane and the battery starts to discharge itself. Not a good idea, DJI.
aristosv said:Has anyone tried this yet? How can a battery discharge itself without any load?
As I wrote before, the battery will use their buit-in balancer loads for discharging what means they might slightly warm up for few degrees during that time period. There is no user control needed for this.Bluegrass said:I know just enough about batteries to know that you need to put a load on them to discharge them. Perhaps these fancy intelligent batteries have a built in load that can be applied with it's built in computer to discharge it. What I want to know is how does the battery get updated by this new software? Do you have to run the new software with each of your spare batteries installed in the Phantom? It would be nice if DJI provided us with some control over this new auto battery discharge.
phantomi said:The more I read, the more I'll delay the upgrade. I'm fine with the 3.07 for now.
GerdS said:As I wrote before, the battery will use their buit-in balancer loads for discharging what means they might slightly warm up for few degrees during that time period. There is no user control needed for this.
That's exactly what I'm thinking. Sounds potentially dangerous, for an automated procedure.ianwood said:Even with a cross connect, basic physics dictates you can't go from 100% charged on all cells to 50% on all cells without putting that stored energy somewhere in some form be it heat or making a motor move or energizing a light.
4wd said:running the phantom indoors to drain them seems fraught with possible hazards