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- May 13, 2017
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- Woodstock, GA, USA
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So my first post here, unfortunately it's a bad one but from what I've seen on the forum you guys are a wealth of information here. I've read a bunch of other posts on the I2 and issues and whatnot, but nothing that matches what happened to me. I was flying around, nothing high speed or high altitude, just doing some basic sunset video to show some local lake buddies. Battery got to my warning level of 35%, started home and got above my takeoff point, battery still at 26% and elevation of 265ft. Was in a straight descent and battery all of a sudden started beeping critical battery at 11%. Within 3 seconds of that warning and an elevation of 55ft, the drone just shut off and dropped to the ground. Needless to say it shattered a number of parts and the X5 camera and gimbal. Parts are whatever, but why would that happen so rapidly? First things first, I've got close to 2000 hours (1967 at this time) on a number of drones and have been flying for the past 6 years with a variety of different models. Fortunately it wasn't my I2 and I've got a parts I1 that I can salvage to get this one back together quickly. My issue is this battery has 8 charges on it, always stored properly, etc. Why would this literally go from 35% to nothing in less than 4 minutes? I could see MAYBE if I was flying back home at full speed but that wasn't the case. Checked the battery after the crash, no dead cells, nothing to indicate a failure of any kind. Any help would be appreciated and I'm just thankful that it didn't drop into the lake which if it had died 50 yards further out I'd be diving to find it right now instead of typing this post!