The DJI Spark Thread

[Quadcopter]

more than half os singapore is a NFZ....kinda pointless to own a drone anymore unless u r willing to travel far jus to fly for like 20-30mins (which is what the battery usually lasts for)

Hi

1) Short flight time of 20-30min => Get more batteries, e.g. prepare 4 batteries and you can fly for 2 hours
2) Long Traveling => If you have few drone flying kaki, then it is ok. If alone, then you would feel it is stupid
3) Wasting time => Find some free time, go out and have fresh air, instead of got stuck in front of computers. Going out regularly making you more healthy physically and mentally.
4) Not exciting => Go different places every weekend, so you will not feel bored
5) No fly zones => set you drone to less than 60m max altitude, about 200m max distance, then your drone will not fly above limit, or into NFZ accidentally.
6) Others => Get a reliable GPS guided drone with good obstacle sensors in all direction, then you can have more fun flying it. GPS guided allows you to be less stressful as drones don't drift around, no need 100% concentration in flying it. The all direction obstacle detection removes your worries of drone knock into something and crashed, it is also safer to people nearby. And when flying, try keep flying above water where nobody there, then no worries of drone suddenly drops down and hits someone.

in short, if someone likes outdoor activities he might like drone flying. If someone likes to stay indoor, he will never like drone flying.

 

[feigningfancy]

Hi all, can anyone advise on the multi charger for batteries? Any brand other than DJI that i can get? Found an OEM one on shopee but not sure how reliable is it

 

[Quadcopter]

should work, spark batteries will charge by themselves if ~13.1V applied. the batteries are safe. I think my china made chargers are charging my spark batteries at 13.2V and mavic2 batteries at 17.6, batteries not dead yet.

Main problem is those AC adapters from china could explode/burn easily. So may be try charging 2-3 batteries at a time instead of full load of 4 batteries.

if you do not have the spark charging hub from fly-more, may be you can consider getting this original dji spark portable charger. Nobody wants it and taobao sellers are clearing stock at about S$60 each. You can charge the 5000mah portable charger and another 3 batteries at the same time, but charging is slow of 3hrs. You have a portable charger (good for 3 charges) after that.

https://store.dji.com/product/spark-portable-charging-station

if you are buying from taobao, make sure goods come as charging station with charger/adapter, as in original box (not just the charging station).

note that do not leave your drone batteries inside portable charger when not using for long time. Drone batteries need to be discharged to about 50% when in storage.

 

[Quadcopter]

this is my Spark portable charger. I have 4pcs of those 3300mah 4S Turnigy batteries lying around. tested working but still do not know how safe,... scary...

 

[hwzlite]

where is hwzlite? help! wind or no wind, my spark's max speed is only 10km/hr in p-mode. spec says 20km/hr. and mavic2 is getting 50km/hr. how to fix that spark speed problem?

Hmmm.....did you set the speed slider to the max?

So far my fastest speed record is 14.2m/s

 

[Quadcopter]

Hmmm.....did you set the speed slider to the max?

So far my fastest speed record is 14.2m/s

i found the answer liow,....

under p-mode, when obstacle avoidance sensor enabled, max 10km/hr speed
under p-mode, when obstacle avoidance sensor disabled, max 20km/hr speed

 

[hwzlite]

i found the answer liow,....

under p-mode, when obstacle avoidance sensor enabled, max 10km/hr speed
under p-mode, when obstacle avoidance sensor disabled, max 20km/hr speed

Ohhh...paisah , thought you said sport mode

 

[jolly_juggler]

Drones for Private Security, Incident & Crisis Response

Hi,

Anybody from the group have knowledge or interest in this topic?

I'm looking to write a white paper on it and hopefully leading to a POC. So I am looking to find a collaborator.

You can check me out on LinkedIn to see my background

jasoncwells

Thanks.

Jason