Inspire 1 Remote Drains Too Quickly

[Kevin Cabral]

Is this normal? I can't remember if I charged it full the first time I got the remote and Inspire 2 months ago. I tried draining it to 7% and charged to full. Didn't do anything to help the issue. With a full charge, it'll drop to 80% or mid 80%'s within 5-6 flights. Anyone else experiencing this?

 

[unyks]

Same here and I don't think that this not normal. 80% is good after 120 minutes of flights + pre and after flight stuff.

Remember it is a Lipo and you have to treat it this way (storage load etc)

Chris

 

[Kevin Cabral]

So your remote drains quick too? I drained my battery to 7% 2 days ago. You think I should try and drain it completely until it shuts off and see if it helps? I charged it full just now. DJI reads the battery % at 98%. Not sure why it's not showing 100% :S

 

[unyks]

No, I think having 80% after 5 or 6 flights is ok. After the flight your RC was at least 2hrs switched on + it charged your mobile device or tablet. To be honest I never checked the exact battery status of the RC , just the LEDs.

Chris

 

[Kevin Cabral]

No, I think having 80% after 5 or 6 flights is ok. After the flight your RC was at least 2hrs switched on + it charged your mobile device or tablet. To be honest I never checked the exact battery status of the RC , just the LEDs.

Chris

Oh so it's okay how it's behaving? I just noticed it drain quicker than the Phantom 3 and Phantom 4 RC's. When I had the P3P RC, that thing lasted forever. This Inspire RC, doesn't last as long. Maybe it's doing more processing than what we see in the Phantom RC's?

 

[unyks]

Yeah maybe we should wait what others are saying. I never really paid attention to it as I thought the battery consumption is reasonable.
Know knows, maybe you are right

 

[The Editor]

Is this normal? I can't remember if I charged it full the first time I got the remote and Inspire 2 months ago. I tried draining it to 7% and charged to full. Didn't do anything to help the issue. With a full charge, it'll drop to 80% or mid 80%'s within 5-6 flights. Anyone else experiencing this?

Normal.
How much time do you expect out of it?
6x14mins = roughly 90 min flight time (give or take)
Multiply that by three and you would be in the air for around four and a half hours and you would still have 40% of RC battery left.
Another 90 mins in the air would put you at 6 hours flight time and still have 20% remote battery left!!!!

 

[Kevin Cabral]

Normal.
How much time do you expect out of it?
6x14mins = roughly 90 min flight time
Multiply that by three and you would be in the air for around four and a half hours and you would still have 40% of RC battery left.
Another 90 mins in the air would put you at 6 hours flight time and still have 20% remote battery left!!!!

Lmao I was just curious on why it drains quicker than the Phantom 3/4 RC's. That's all. When I had the P3P RC, that thing was like a cockroach. Charged it once, and lasted me forever lol

 

[The Editor]

Lmao I was just curious on why it drains quicker than the Phantom 3/4 RC's. That's all. When I had the P3P RC, that thing was like a cockroach. Charged it once, and lasted me forever lol

The Inspire has the Lightbridge AND the 5.8ghz slave/master link so draws slightly more current.
I would say 6 hours flight/use is pretty good.
Never been an issue for me on any job or days flying I have done.

 

[Kevin Cabral]

The Inspire has the Lightbridge AND the 5.8ghz slave/master link so draws slightly more current.
I would say 6 hours flight/use is pretty good.
Never been an issue for me on any job or days flying I have done.

Oh I see, well that explains it. Question, why when I fully charged it, it finished, but shows 98% in the app. Do I need to drain this RC completely until it shuts off, then charge it back up?

 

[The Editor]

Oh I see, well that explains it. Question, why when I fully charged it, it finished, but shows 98% in the app. Do I need to drain this RC completely until it shuts off, then charge it back up?

No - they do not need calibrating.
You have just lost circa 2% of your RC Lipo capacity so 120mAh from 6,000.
Lipos decrease in capacity with age - it's just a fact of life.
Using the calculation above you may have lost 7 minutes of RC battery out of 6 hours!!
Not really an issue.

 

[Kevin Cabral]

No - they do not need calibrating.
You have just lost circa 2% of your RC Lipo capacity so 120mAh from 6,000.
Lipos decrease in capacity with age - it's just a fact of life.
Using the calculation above you may have lost 7 minutes of RC battery out of 6 hours!!
Not really an issue.

Oh I see... that's not bad. But how come it won't charge up to 100% though. Why stop at 98% charge. So basically it'll eventually stop charging at 60% and won't go further? I just don't see why it won't just display 100% charge even though I lost 2% of life. The Inspire batteries show 100% charge even when the health reads 92%