Autel Robotics Reminded Users How to Properly Operate the EVO II Battery

Useful tips from Autel Robotics

Autel Robot­ics has released a video with help­ful tips on how to prop­er­ly use and main­tain the EVO II drone’s bat­ter­ies for opti­mal per­for­mance. You may already know about some of them, but we think a quick reminder will not be super­flu­ous for any­one. Also note that many of these tips can be applied not only to EVO II bat­ter­ies, but also to oth­er quad­copter bat­ter­ies, includ­ing DJI, Sky­dio, and Par­rot bat­ter­ies.

EVO II Battery Tips

• Make sure the bat­tery is turned off before installing the bat­tery in the drone. Snap the bat­tery firm­ly into place.
• Always ful­ly charge the bat­tery before fly­ing.
• Full charge time is approx­i­mate­ly 90 min­utes.
• Use only bat­ter­ies and charg­ers approved by Autel Robot­ics.
• Do not use a dam­aged charg­er.
• If the bat­tery is left at 8% charge for more than one day, the bat­tery will go into ultra-low pow­er mode, which will be indi­cat­ed by turn­ing off the bat­tery lev­el indi­ca­tion. To exit this mode, the bat­tery must be acti­vat­ed by charg­ing.
• After the flight, do not rush to imme­di­ate­ly start charg­ing the bat­tery, wait until it cools down to room tem­per­a­ture. If the user ignores this rec­om­men­da­tion, then the over­heat­ing pro­tec­tion will work, which will not allow charg­ing the bat­tery imme­di­ate­ly after the flight.
• Bat­tery over­heat­ing will be indi­cat­ed by a flash­ing sec­ond LED charge lev­el indi­ca­tor.
• Charg­ing will start auto­mat­i­cal­ly as soon as the bat­tery tem­per­a­ture reach­es the opti­mum val­ues.
• Do not ignore bat­tery error mes­sages while fly­ing.
• If a low bat­tery warn­ing is dis­played, imme­di­ate­ly pro­ceed to return to the take-off site, this approach will ensure a safe return.

EVO II Battery Maintenance Tips

• Charge unused bat­ter­ies once a month.
• If the bat­tery is stored for too long at a crit­i­cal­ly low charge lev­el, the bat­tery cells may be dam­aged.
• When the Evo II bat­tery is not in use, it auto­mat­i­cal­ly dis­charges slow­ly over time.
• The dis­charge time can be set in the Autel Explor­er app from 1 to 10 days.
• Store bat­ter­ies in a dry, well-ven­ti­lat­ed place at room tem­per­a­ture.
• The ide­al bat­tery stor­age tem­per­a­ture is between 22°C and 28°C.
• Do not store bat­ter­ies in direct sun­light, near sharp objects, mois­ture or met­al.
• When on an air­plane, do not allow the bat­tery to come into con­tact with mois­ture or heat.