battery

I am aware that there is already a thread on this, however I would like to share my own progress with this project and receive the help and input of others. I have already assembled the PVC rig and made a mounting plate for the gimbal. I have the "gimbal data" cable but, the current issue with...

My Solo went into fresh water today. My question is about the battery. I've taken the battery off of Solo. The furthest left LED is on bright. The rest are on dim. It's outside in the shade. Are there any other precautions I should take so the battery doesn't catch fire, explode, or...

I must confess, I thrash my racing quad batteries. But they are cheep and easily replaceable. My Solo batteries on the other hand are not cheep (albeit when BB have a sale they are) and getting harder to find. Mine get treated like this; 1 - I never fly under 20% remaining but quite often...

Hey guys I found this little guy and got me one. It is the "Q6 Plus 300W Smart Charger". I just got done charging multiple batteries for different toys I have. Pretty much with enough cable adapters you could charge almost any battery almost any where. It is very flexible as far as input and...

Sorry folks, I may have just bought the last one. Hopped on Amazon after my skiing trip with the notion of buying an extra battery I've been thinking about, and saw that they were on sale for $35!! The kicker was there was only one left :( I would've bought 6 more if I checked this morning...

I just purchased a kit from Best buy. I won't have it until next weekend as I will be out of town. I've been waiting to get into the drone market for awhile but the $1000+ for decent quality kept me back. With the $299 BB deal I jumped on it. Also picked up an additional gimbal as well. BB is...

I crashed my Solo and have decided to part ways with the parts, and 3DR, instead of buying a new one. I had only flown my solo a few times before the crash. Device would power on and connect in fly mode after crash. The shell was basically destroyed, but other parts in pretty good condition. I...

This is the method and code I used to communicate with the smart battery over I2C with an arduino mega 2560. I was able to communicate over I2C at 5v, but I have ordered a level shifter with the intention of testing if the line works at a safer level of 3.3v as well. Some I2C devices are 5v...

Hi i want to build a drone but i don't know wich propellers and battery to use, these are the parts that i want to use: Motor and ESC combo: https://hobbyking.com/it_it/multistar-afro-combo-pack-2216-800kv-and-matched-20a-afro-esc-set-of-4-cw-ccw.html Quad Frame...

3DR - Solo Battery - $49.99 today at best buy for deal of the day and the solo pack for $379.99 3DR - Solo Smart Rechargeable Battery - Black

A weird thing occurred today. I took off as always, everything started up as it should, I had a fully charged battery and took it up around 50ft and started fly to my destination around 20ft and I saw the battery go from 96% to 15% in 1minute. I have never had the battery drain so fast. Has...

I have several of these. Got them directly from 3D Robotics. I have them listed on ebay. I'm in the Dallas area if you wish to pick up. PM me for phone number if you wish to talk. $499 + $30 shipping if you buy here or $569 on ebay to cover the fees. Selling pretty cheap but am open to a...

I'd like to use 3rd party lipo packs with my solo. I'm thinking of using something like this, permanently mounted on the solo: Smart Battery Systems (SBS) with SmBus V1.1 support for 7.4V / 11.1V / 14.8V Li-Ion battery packs , and then plug any "regular" lipo pack's power and balance...

Hi, Could we use the Solo batteries as a USB power source? This is a though I had in the long plane to vacation, when the battery of my tablet died, whereas I had all this unusable power in the batteries of my solo drone were fully charged and could have been used? Could we use a DIY module...

Hi I have two smart battery board to play with. If you like to have them for try out with non-3DR battery. Let me know and we can talk more later. Thx

I just got my Drone a week or so ago. I have three batteries but would like at least two more. Paypal ready. They would be going to Glendale, AZ 85308 Thanks!!

So I'm having troubles with my battery. I have flown the drone twice. Both times being perfect flights with zero problems. After the last flight I went to charge the battery and I monitored it to make sure everything was good. I then put the battery in the Solo backpack and went out to go fly...

I received my Solo and Gimbal last week and finally had a moment to unbox and install the gimbal. Removing the static GoPro mount, I found 2 / 3 screws were incredibly difficult to remove. I was afraid of breaking off the threaded insert from the body. 45 mins later, I was able to work the...

Hello, We've had a handful of instances where the battery voltage displayed on the controller drops at a consistent, "normal" rate until it gets to 25% then it drops very quickly. Can anyone please explain this behavior and how we may troubleshoot? Is the battery no good? We have many...

As most of us here Down Under are aware, the solo smart battery is way more expensive than what it sells for in the US. In Oz it retails anywhere from AUD$238 to $299.00. The latter is quickly becoming the norm. So today I was surfing the net looking to buy a couple of these batteries. Not...