Mavic Pro Battery DIED, Safe to use 3rd Party battery?

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Well after having my Mavic Pro for just over 2 years now, I found out on a recent collaboration with @Jeff Sibelius using all of our drones that my Mavic Pro had developed 2 bad batteries out of the 3 that came with my fly more package.

I would get an Battery Error on the RC screen and in the app it said that there was a broken cell. So began my journey into get a few new batteries for the Mavic Pro. I stopped by my local Best Buy and the tech there said "Man, I hate to tell you but these batteries are easily a year and a half old" which made me a bit uneasy about purchasing an old battery that may only last 5-10 cycles before going bad.
So, then I got online to look at DJI official batteries and decided to do a live chat, I asked if these batteries were brand new and not old stock, the Rep would not deny that they might be old stock that is new, but still been sitting for quite some time.

Now with always worrying about a 3rd party battery for a drone as if there "IS" an issue, it could be catastrophic, crash on people, damage property and not least, ruin our drone. So after some exhaustive searching, I found these, direct fit, they are the same intelligent batteries that are in the Mavic Pro, same voltage, same mAh etc but the color is "slightly" lighter grey in color, otherwise a direct fit, no issues with the app/firmware and the only real difference is that I got a few minutes less flight time, but that may improve after a few charge cycles.

Just wanted to do this video for all of those drone pilots out there that will eventually run into this same issue of the battery going bad and after a Drone company stops producing that drone, original batteries might be hard to find and our only option will be 3rd party batteries.

Also, if you are a battery expert and drone expert, please comment below your thoughts about this issue, what causes these batteries to go bad with only 26 charge cycles and what WE as consumers can do to properly store, recover (if possible) these batteries and your thoughts on 3rd party batteries for drones !




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