The problem has nothing to do with the "old" design. The new design was _only_ done to save cost in manufacture. Most of the issues were due to colder batteries reporting a charge higher then was really in the battery and then the battery being put under full load. This caused them to drop to the critical charge level that DJI set and they turned off to protect themselves. This has been addressed in the 1.6 firmware release.
We don't know this. That's the DJI PR machine. Do you think they would ever ADMIT to a problem with all the older hardware out there. Would probably take a class action. It would be a PR nightmare, slow their sales,and create a warranty/recall backlog. This is just what they are TELLING the public.
Exactly. Want to know why these things are dropping? People aren't applying 1.6 to fix the problem.
That's not the 'why", but may help. It's a band aid.
There is no actual proof that they changed motors to save cost .. That's just people with the old motors trying to convince themselves what they have is better.
I do however agree a lot of it may be due to the cold & people not upgrading to 1.6.
I have a p3a with the old Motors and a p3p with the new ones and personally prefer the new ones (so far) in every aspect.
I'm now wondering if the new firmware is somehow optimized for the 800kv motors and when the p3 is pushed its overloading the mosfets on the older centre boards with the 960kv motors? Reminiscent of what seemed to be happening to some people when DJI revised the motors on the p2v+ and ran them with the old esc's and people were having issues ??
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Agree Canada. It's just what we are being told from DJI.
My bird fell out of the sky at the end of October. Perfect conditions, sunny, inside the parking lot of my hometown park at the top of a mountain. No powerlines. Battery at 94% I warmed up my P3A at 50 feet. I closed up my truck, and got ready to video the entire length of the park. Lanyard on, iPad mini being my eyes, 20/20. Left joystick up!!! the motors stopped, and he came down in a hurry. The camera smashed right off, the legs bent but not broken, the body not broken, but opened up and shut back as as a couple of the tabs were now exposed from the landing. The blades were in tact. I sent the unit to California, and it was back to me within 3 weeks. I live in Vancouver, BC all at DJI's expense. I had asked for a synopsis of what was discovered to no avail.They only provided a list of the materials that were replaced. Body, Legs, Camera.
They fixed it under warranty, but never explained the problem you had. They couldn't really. A s***storm would follow with the hundreds of thousands sold to date. From what I've read recently, DJI are thinking of going public, and consider themselves a 10 Billion dollar company. Would't help an IPO much.
Bow To Your Billionaire Drone Overlord: Frank Wang's Quest To Put DJI Robots Into The Sky
http://gizmodo.com/*******-crashes-drone-into-seattles-great-wheel-1742072556
THOSE DAM NEW MOTORS AGAIN !!
Keith, those are the "OLD" motors?
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