any thing would not be waistfull.......have you seen prices on ebay and amazon for new and used TB48 and 47........wow i see new ones for what i got my 12000 for......the only drone not effected in P4 lipos.......if you buy aftermarket to use for I1 donors, you could get 11740 mah for 89 bucks.......plus hard work......Vincent NG 12000 is all P4 cells....... i could buy a new
I2 for selling my tb packs
And there is the REAL problem. I would NEVER trust any of my Inspire 1 aircraft to janky aftermarket cells that are unreliable and of questionable quality.
Basically, if you use sub-standard crap like that, you risk peoples lives. And, yes, I have ZERO doubt an Inspire 1 crashing would kill someone.
Ultimately, that is my motivation on a lot of this. These are not toys. These are not Mavic lightweights. These are massive aircraft that can do REAL damage.
So, it is via being responsible that I do not post everything I know. Inspire 1 drones have become cheap enough that unmotivated, irresponsible individuals can easily buy them on the cheap, and as such with a "cheap" battery solution, run the very real risk of harming others. What would become of the Inspires if that happened???
I can tell you, they would start making drones of a given size illegal to fly without a commercial license at the very least and at the worst without a specialized license, or even flat out deny them to be in the air above a given size.
THAT is the real issue here. Reliability.
It is 100% irresponsible for ANYONE to put a third party battery pack on an Inspire as its main power source and fly it. DJI knows this, thus why they made it so difficult.
Again, I have ZERO issue with someone producing solid, balanced, calibrated battery packs for these aircraft. I would hope someone would rival DJI offerings and stand by their product. And I am uniquely qualified to stand here and say it is VERY hard to do just that.
Sorry, majority of the Lipos available on the market are not "mission critical". Do they work, yes. Do they fail unexpectedly, yes.
An aircraft the size of an Inspire 1 will easily kill a child. It could easily kill an adult as well. If flown into traffic there is no question it could cause a massive chain-reaction and many deaths.
If any of that happened there would be swift and quick outlawing of drones of a given size or larger. We have just been lucky that such sized aircraft have been out of reach financially for those that want to be that irresponsible on a whim. Keeping proper batteries at a premium for everyone keeps that a true case.
I really do not understand the desire to make a $90 12000mAh battery for these aircraft. That would make them HIGHLY popular for all sorts of stupidity.
Also, to clarify, it is not just the mAh you need to look at, you also need to look at the voltage and watt-hours. They also need to be liPoHV cells of high quality.
Hopefully I have clarified my position on the whole "battery thing" once more (I believe I have stated such before as well).