Sudden power-drain in-flight can be a drone-loss issue. None of my 5 batteries have more than 30 charges.
I had this happen yesterday flying through a grove of trees. Battery went to Home warning at 15%. I cancelled Home b/c it was close to me, and flying under a tree canopy — a sudden altitude gain to go home would have been a disaster. Taking control, and easing it the 100 feet back to me, it instantly dropped to 5% “landing now” mode, and went straight down into some bushes. When I got to it, 2 min later, it read 2%!
Extremely fortunate for me, b/c the previous flight 30 min. earlier on another battery was 1.5 miles away into a lava canyon waterfall a mountain goat couldn’t reach.
This scares me, it happened once before, landing on a thankfully empty softball field. Why does this happen, and how does one fix it?
I had this happen yesterday flying through a grove of trees. Battery went to Home warning at 15%. I cancelled Home b/c it was close to me, and flying under a tree canopy — a sudden altitude gain to go home would have been a disaster. Taking control, and easing it the 100 feet back to me, it instantly dropped to 5% “landing now” mode, and went straight down into some bushes. When I got to it, 2 min later, it read 2%!
Extremely fortunate for me, b/c the previous flight 30 min. earlier on another battery was 1.5 miles away into a lava canyon waterfall a mountain goat couldn’t reach.
This scares me, it happened once before, landing on a thankfully empty softball field. Why does this happen, and how does one fix it?