In case you’ve just lately acquired a brand new Mini 4 Professional, there’s a lot to study your new drone.
It may be daunting making an attempt to determine easy methods to cost the batteries, cost the distant controllers, select the correct photograph and video settings, allow the impediment avoidance sensors, and every little thing else in between.
This text and the included YouTube video function a step-by-step tutorial exhibiting easy methods to:
- Cost the DJI Mini 4 Professional drone batteries individually and collectively throughout the charging hub
- Cost each kinds of DJI distant controllers – the DJI RC 2 and DJI RC-N2
Charging the DJI RC 2 or RC-N2
After buying the DJI Mini 4 Professional, or any new drone, it is very important cost all batteries earlier than utilizing them, whether or not these be drone or distant controller batteries.
It’s comprehensible to wish to open the DJI field and fly instantly, even when this implies flying on half-battery energy. Charging the batteries first, although, is essential.
Following the pattern of the Mini 3 and Mini 3 Professional earlier than it, the Mini 4 Professional doesn’t embody an influence adaptor.
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For the quickest charging speeds, DJI recommends their 30-watt DJI Charger.
With a 30-watt charger, it is possible for you to to cost a controller by way of the battery hub, in addition to the drone’s batteries.
Whereas utilizing the DJI-branded 30-watt charger is beneficial, most 30-watt aftermarket chargers will work simply superb.
Within the following steps, I’ll stroll you thru charging the DJI RC 2 and RC-N2 with a single charger.
Additional on, I’ll show charging particular person Mini 4 Professional batteries, in addition to the DJI distant controller, together with the Mini 4 Professional batteries within the charging hub.
STEP 1: Utilizing the included DJI USB-C cable, connect the cable to a USB-C charger and plug the charger into your energy supply.
Once more, the USB-C charger doesn’t must be a DJI 30-watt charger. Any 30-watt charger will probably be a quick charging system for the drone batteries and controller.
STEP 2: Plug the USB-C cable into both the DJI RC 2 or DJI RC-N2 controller. The lights on the controller will blink, exhibiting that they’re charging.
In case you should not have a 30-watt charger and are utilizing a 12-volt charger, the DJI RC 2 and RC-N2 will take 2 hours to cost from zero p.c.
Subsequently, if a 15-volt charger is used, the RC will totally cost from zero p.c in nearly one and a half hours.
STEP 3: After charging is accomplished, take away the USB-C cable from the distant controller.
In case you’d wish to examine the quantity of energy the distant controller has at any given time, merely press the ability button as soon as, and the LEDs will warn you to the remaining battery stage.
Beneath are the values for battery energy on the DJI RC 2 and RC-N2:
- 4 inexperienced LED: 75% – 100% battery life
- 3 inexperienced LED: 50% – 75% battery life
- 2 inexperienced LED: 25% – 50% battery life
- 1 inexperienced LED: 0% – 25% battery life
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Charging a Single Battery
Just one battery will probably be included if you buy the Mini 4 Professional & Controller-only combo.
To cost the one battery that got here with the Mini 4 Professional, it have to be carried out so throughout the Mini 4 Professional itself:
STEP 1: As with the RC, connect the included DJI USB-C cable to a USB-C charger and plug the charger into your outlet or energy strip.
STEP 2: Insert your Mini 4 Professional drone battery into the Mini 4 Professional.
STEP 3: Plug the USB-C cable into the Mini 4 Professional. The lights on the drone will blink, exhibiting that it’s charging.
STEP 4: After the Mini 4 Professional has accomplished totally charging, unplug it from the USB-C cable.
When charging the batteries, whereas inserted into the Mini 4 Professional, it would take 64 minutes to completely cost every normal battery and 101 minutes to cost the Plus model batteries.
You may discover there isn’t any method to examine how a lot battery share is left on the battery when it’s not plugged into the Mini 4 Professional.
In case you solely have one battery and never the charging hub, you’ll both must:
- Press the ability button as soon as on the Mini 4 Professional with the battery inserted, or alternatively,
- Whereas in Digicam View in your distant controller, examine the higher right-hand facet of the display screen for the Mini 4 Professional’s present battery share.
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Charging through Two-Method Charging Hub
The 2-way charging hub within the Mini 4 Professional Fly Extra Combo means that you can cost as much as three clever flight batteries, whether or not the Customary or Plus model of the batteries, alongside together with your DJI RC 2 or RC-N2 controller.
The charging is finished sequentially, that means the drone battery with the very best battery stage will probably be charged first, adopted by the distant controller.
To cost 3 batteries and the Distant Controller:
STEP 1: Insert your Mini 4 Professional batteries into the charging hub.
STEP 2: You need to have 2 DJI USB-C cables: The one which got here with the Mini 4 Professional and the opposite that got here with the Fly Extra combo.
Plug one of many USB-C cables into your USB-C charger. Plug the opposite finish into your charging hub. After this, plug your charger into an outlet.
STEP 3: Take the 2nd USB-C cable and plug the USB cable, this time the USB-end, into the charging hub.
STEP 4: Take the 2nd cable after which plug it into your distant controller.
Your Mini 4 Professional batteries and the distant controller will all cost sequentially till all batteries have totally charged.
When all three batteries are charged by way of the charging hub utilizing a 30-watt USB-C charger, it would take 57 minutes to completely cost every Customary battery and/or 77 minutes to cost every Plus model battery.
To rapidly examine how a lot battery life is left on the batteries within the charging hub, merely press the button on the facet of the charging hub. All of the LEDs beneath the batteries linked to the hub will gentle up with their respective battery share.
Be aware: It is rather necessary to keep away from over-discharging the Mini 4 Professional batteries. Over-discharging the batteries could cause injury to the battery and scale back its total capability. To stop over-discharging, it’s endorsed to maintain the battery stage above 60% when saved and never in use.