i’ve been flying phantoms since the fc40 and have seen this many times over the years with all levels of phantoms,always keep an eye out for batteries that have swelled up a little or a lot because this is the end result,i have 4 batteries well 5 if i count the swollen one i used just for adjusting the drone or camera on the ground
That's interesting, has there been a cause associated to frequent swollen batteries?
You're indicating the swollen battey is common or the ignited battery in flight... or both? Has it been the higher rated battery or doesn't matter.
Curious since I'm looking at a Phantom. Never been a Phantom fan... not sure why, just haven't. Basically my other crafts meet the needs most likely.
On the DJI side, own without issues Inspire 1 & 2's, Matrice M210 & M600Pro, and all Mavic up to M2EDual. All with so-called smart batteries which esentially remove manual interaction on C rate, upper & lower limits, low voltage & high voltage cutoffs and storage / discharge matrix.
I've not had a swollen DjI battery in over 4-5 yrs, and it's the same LiPo gel pretty much across all DJI batteries. On standard lipo, I tried a few no-name LiPo paks that swelled... but that was most certain the poor sub-standard chemicals. So many more unknown manufactures for standard LiPo brick paks.
Has anyone determined cause; was it product (specific model) related... if so how different from other DJI batteries. Non-OEM paks? The Method being used & charged... charging hot or hot-warm batteries. The "charger" and it's rating or correct tolerance, storage condition??
The LiPo cells an be dangerous; particularly if inferior or unstable chemicals, poorly mixed or prepared lipo gel chemical. If stable chemicals, manufactured properly and treated correctly, lipo's are generally pretty safe and don't experience chemical breakdown (swollen expanded gel) by proper charging and treatment prior to gel deteriorating to insufficient charge levels.
Just curious if accurate, why has the Phantom experienced poor battery performance and more specifically not addressed by DJI. The M200 series last year had 1 single "reported" instance by a UK Swat shop and created havic for 3-4 months and 3 battery FW versions.