Inspire 1 Battery

[Lawman0210]

I have a Battery that only had 15 charges on it. The other day I charged it up and it all looked good. I put it into my I1 and it turned my I1 on automatically and shown up as 0 or N/A on my screen. I then pushed the button to see how much power was remaining and the LED's would not come on. I then tried to power down the craft but the battery would not power down. I pulled the battery and the battery seems dead. I put it on the charger and nothing but as soon as I snap it into the i1 it powers it up but with no battery info. I removed it again and tried popping the top and disconnecting the circuit board form power but that did nothing. Any ideas?

 

[Tubbyengineer]

Have you updated the AC Firmware since you bought the battery? could be a firmware mismatch between battery and AC?

 

[DodgeP]

Ran into this situation over the weekend. I know the battery was charged on Sunday morning, get to my location Sunday afternoon and the battery wouldn't turn on. Unplugged the circuit board, left overnight, still nothing. Coincidence that I updated my AC firmware on Friday? No idea, how I killed a fairly new battery with only 12 charges is beyond me. Waiting to hear back from DJI.

 

[Rich Sugden MD]

I have a Battery that only had 15 charges on it. The other day I charged it up and it all looked good. I put it into my I1 and it turned my I1 on automatically and shown up as 0 or N/A on my screen. I then pushed the button to see how much power was remaining and the LED's would not come on. I then tried to power down the craft but the battery would not power down. I pulled the battery and the battery seems dead. I put it on the charger and nothing but as soon as I snap it into the i1 it powers it up but with no battery info. I removed it again and tried popping the top and disconnecting the circuit board form power but that did nothing. Any ideas?

I have an Inspire 1 that is about 18 months old .. haven't flown it in probably 8 months, getting more familiar w. my Phantom 3 AV ... Yesterday when I checked, three of the four batteries were 'dead' .. no lights when pressed, or held for 5 sec .. one had 1.5 lights, and came right back. I took of the battery tops, disconnected the small wires connector and let them sit over night ... then plugged them into the charger .. still 'dead' after 30 min.! I thought all this complicated, expensive, circuitry in these batteries was to protect them against over-discharge ... which destroys lithium batteries. So now I have $600 worth of paperweights. One of the batteries was OK ... why would the other three go bad ... All had the same charge when stored. I think the batteries are defective, in that they are allowed to discharge in storage. I have probably 50 LiPo batteries of all sizes and shape, and they hold their charge for years ... that's the big advantage of LiPo vs. lead and Nicad ...