Flight times with Gimbal...??

[J. Paul Simeone]

Just a question Anyone have any idea what the motor life is on the 3dr solo. Are we talking cumlitive hours 100, 500 etc.

 

[RikMiddle]

Just a question Anyone have any idea what the motor life is on the 3dr solo. Are we talking cumlitive hours 100, 500 etc.

I believe 3DR recommends replace every 150hrs.

 

[J. Paul Simeone]

Thank you

 

[SteveReno]

Since Steve's link foo didn't work...Looking after your Solo batteries | 3D Robotics Drone Forum

Thanks @RichWest .

 

[Timmytimetravel]

One other thing not to rule out with gimbal fly times. It's is charging the GoPro via the back port. On 2.7k60p protune before gimbal, I was using a battery every two flights. Occasionally I'd change every flight for safety. I ran 4 batteries on gimbal and it's still full.

and of course I was remote stop and start GoPro via android which would have helped immensely.

I can imagine if people's go pros are dual use occasionally or for the first flight you might drop fly time as it charges the battery for first time.

Maybe in the future you might be able to software control turning off the charging of the GoPro battery to max fly time.

Overall though much happier not to be rotate and multicgarging GoPro batteries each flight

My fly times today with gimbal were reasonable and returned with 25pc on them

 

[Del]

I believe 3DR recommends replace every 150hrs.

So about 450 Flight...I think?

 

[Han Solo]

Looks like I better land sooner! I drained it to 8% today. Probably so excited to get the gimbal, I lost track of the time. From now on, nothing below 20%. Thanks for this info

 

[RichWest]

So about 450 Flight...I think?

I would think 600-750 battery/flights, based on 15 to 12min flight time on average. Preliminary conversation regarding flight times, i.e. gimbal, GP and wind drag...Flight times with Gimbal...?? | 3D Robotics Drone Forum

It would be nice if the app offered a cumulative motor spin time. Not just the system ON time...

 

[Dash Hewes]

Flew 4 times today, again 13 minutes was the average, however 3rd flight I went beyond the voice of 25% right around 13 minutes, about 2 minutes later the voice said battery low going fail safe. I was in fly-manual and lost control as it went into RTH, in the brief few seconds SOLO climbed and was heading to home until I pressed pause and A-Fly manual. Solo was at about 30 feet when I took control and descended quickly, I didn't give it more throttle and hit hard of enough to hop and flip over, no damage on the grass.

All 4 flights gimbal performed flawlessly.

For me: lesson learned to land at 25%.

JPS was correct of 15% at 14:45

<15% 15:05 when I landed

Early on before the updates I took it down to 10% uneventful.