Watt The Hell? Charging The DJI Mini 3 Pro, Efficiently! 

You saved me a lot of time Stephen. A big thanks.

Great info Stephen. Good comprehensive test. Thanks for the knowledge!

Just what I as looking for! Thanks so much my friend.

This is a very useful test, Stephen! Thank you!

Helpful info for me. Thank U.

Maximum charging speed is 30 watts so none of the ways you did it was the most efficient lol. You should try to do a video on the maximum charging speed of the hub. That might actually be useful.

Glad I found this video. I have 2 chargers and I couldn't figure out why the lights on the RC Controller and the lights on the battery of the drone were blinking at different paces while being charged. I now see that it was due to the watts of the chargers being different. Looking back on it, it should have been obvious but when you want to take every precaution to not damage your new "toy" things may not always be so obvious.

This is an excellent video. Thanks for sharing

Very good test Stephen and information. I have bought a 48W car charger when out and about.

Great, thanks for sharing 👍

Good info, thanks for sharing that.

Nice informative video thank you Stephen

great Job

This certainly answered my question. I'm going to get more charging hubs using higher output power supplies for each. Thank you for tests.

great test spot on.

Thank you so much 🙏 you just earned a new subscriber

Super many thanks! Great stuff. You just cleared up my main concern, before getting a mini 3 pro. I’m an outdoor guy, spending 10+ days in wilderness with just a light weight 5W solar panel… . . 😂😅

Did you test your flight durations after because maybe 67watts generated some heat resistance and did not fully charge good for vid pls let me know thanks

Thank you for this informacion!🙏

Good info. I have the regular battery and 2 + batteries with the 3 station charger. I've used a 40 watt charger and it works well but I usually just plug it in to an old USB hub, which is probably very slow. But I leave them over night so it is ok. Thanks for the video.

Just got a dji3; thanks for doing the video. I've a charger case,I was hoping I could just charge both (or 3) batteries at the same time.

Thank you

thanks for the info

Good info sir❤

What amp/coulomb is max charge rate?

You had a good presentation. But there are a few things that I would have put in there myself which would have added to your presentation. 1. The power cables. All power cables are not created equally. I would have also mentioned that in addition to this, they have a $16 device that will test your cables to determine whether or not they are designed for data or power or both. The quality of the cable is also dependent upon how much power is going to be going through it and if it is a poorly designed and constructed cable, you could have the most powerful power brick made, but you would not be getting the proper amount of power wattage throughput. Essentially it's like trying to feed a flood water through a straw and we know what happens then, you have a bottleneck. By getting a good quality cable and matching it with a good quality power adapter, you are looking at a considerable reduction in your time to recharge. Also, you're not flying with all three batteries, so I would also suggest that when the Drone lands, you have your two batteries that are going to be fed by an external battery, you know one of these power bricks and when you have the two batteries in there and the Drone lands, just take one battery out and put the Drone battery in there that needs to be charged and use the next battery to cycle it and the first battery that's in there will be helping to cycle power through to the most recently used drone battery. Another school of thought is that you take all the batteries out and only put the one that needs to be charged in their at this time. Theoretically it makes it faster to charge. You might want to consider doing something on that as well with either a drone battery alone and charging with a known good battery brick or a drone battery with another drone battery that's completely charged and just charging up itself. When you look at it, you're definitely considering the best charging plan as well as the best charging devices. I would be very interested to see how other charging bricks compared against each other because the charging with a wall outlet versus charging with a brick is going to be two different things that will have two different results, or will they overall, I give you high marks for doing this because it's easy for people to criticize someone else's work, especially when they don't do it themselves, so cheers to you mate from the United States of Florida

Hi Steven Great information on charging the Mini 3, I just wish I would have waited to purchase the Mini 3. I purchased a used mini1 and by the time I received it, The Mini 2 was coming out for just $100 more than I paid for the first one. Thanks again for the video and information about charging your drone.

I've found that type-C to type-C connectors work best. If you have two charging hubs, you can charge two at the same time. If you use your drone you could charge 3 batteries at the same time and have 3 batteries ready to go in about an hour.

Could anyone tell me what is the best type of memory card for dji mini 3 pro and controller, im just basic drone user for fun, witing for mine coming tomorrow, can't wait

I think You need Power Delivery cable, usb-c to usb-c to use full potential of smaller chargers or powerbanks

Cool video, thanks for putting this together. I have been using a Spigen GaN 120W charger that is blisteringly fast, although I have not timed it as you have. Single USB-C port outputs up to 100W which into the 3-pack charging dock means that the three batteries are charged up probably as fast as is possible to. At this point I should mention that the Hub and the Drone will draw a max of 30W, well below that the Spigen can deliver. But it does mean that this single charger can concurrently charge a battery in the Drone and in the Hub at upto 30W from each of its USB-C ports. USB-A delivers up to 18W each of the two ports. If a single USB-C port is in use, it provides up to 100W (handy for laptops). When both USB-C ports are in use, it provides up to 60W. Essentially it will Load Share across all four of its ports (2 x USB-C and 2 x USB-A). At the time of writing the Spigen is £65 on Amazon. These GaN chargers are awesome.

Hi Stephen, I have a Mac charger 96W and one other charger 100W. Would be ok to charge my DJI MINI 3 Pro with that?

I was seeking answers with DJI customer support regarding different adapters, all they've answered was to use 30W, but nothing more. On DJI forum many users are also using different W adapters, so it's quite common. My only concern is that it can degrade battery faster, what do you think?

I've read that it's not recommended to use a chrager that has a voltage higher than 12V for the mini 3. Will a charger with the follwing output be compatible with this drone (I'm asking since it has voltages higher than 12V, e.g. 15V, 20V)? USB-C: 5V=3A 9V=3A 12V=2.5A 15V=2A 20V=1.5A 3.3-11V=2.7A 30W Max

I’ve just recently bought a charmast 65w 23800mah battery pack off Amazon and getting 32w charge into the battery case. I’m happy with that for taking it on the go if needed

You excellent sir

Thank you for trying but you’d need to repeat that test as it hasn’t been done correctly and this is due to the lack of PD (power delivery technology on two these chargers). Disappointing one was 24W one as it should have reached very similar time as apple charger but didn’t due to the lack of support of PD 3.0 which apple one had. Actually you don’t take any advantage from all that extra wattage on that 67w one but it did perform better as it was the only one using PD and used 9v or 12V to charge as opposed to 5V which other 2 did so no wonder why it was way quicker. Only usb-c to usb-c chargers and cables support PD technology but if a charger doesn’t support that it will only output 5V instead of 9V or 12V. Max current that can go through an usb-c cable is 3A (and this is a physical limitation) so if we have charger that works on 5V (no PD) the absolute max wattage will be 3A*5V=15W, if the charger uses PD they can then negotiate with a charged device what voltage would it accept and choose 5v, 9v, 12v or even 20V so since we already know that that cable is only able to push 3A of current that would be respectively: 15W, 27W, 36W or 60W. I’m not 100% sure whether mini 3 pro or it’s hub uses 9v for charging or 12V (leaning more towards that) but that’s why anything more than 27W won’t make it any quicker. High wattage chargers make sense only if you charge a multiple devices from the same charger (multiple output) and you want to charge them all at their max. So get a 27W with PD 3.0 and it will be as quick as your 67W one :)

I honestly thought that you were going to say "Hit that like button, we really wanna see those fingers" 😂 #ShootingStars

WOW, that was actually a big surprise for me. Am I right in thinking though the faster you charge a battery the less life you will get out of it. Also i didn't realize you can actually charge the battery whilst it is in the Drone. Thanks very much for sharing this. I have liked and subscribed. Any idea where i can purchase the 67W charging plug in the UK.

It took 3 hours to charge the one that I bought that I took back the next day because when I tried to hook my phone up to the N1. Controller it setting needed an app. I opened the app and the first thing and ask for it was a credit card and said I aint going anywhere till. I pay 4999 a month.

Personally I have a wall charger that does 33+33 watt's dual output, connected to the triple charger accessory from DJI. I also have a 20,000MaH powerbank that does fast charging.

Shouldn't we check what DJI has to say about this? On their website they say that you should not go higher than 30W on the batteries for the MINI 3 PRO...

Don't these DJI batteries self regulate the input wattage? If so then it makes no difference weather you use a 30 watt or 60 watt. Just wondering.

My Apple 29W wall adaptor won't charge the drone or the multi-charger, its like it doesn't even recognise it, I got an Anker 40W wall plug and it works fine for fast charging.

I got the same results with a 65 w charger and a PD powerbank using usb-c

Great tips as always Stephen I personally use my MacBook charger

I bought the Fly More Kit Pkus 47'...As they come without a charger (too bad for DJI) I went to buy a 30W charger but there were 67 and 47 Watts, with the same specifications as in the manual. Input: 5V --3A,/9v---3A/ 12v--3A.Then, No I bought it for the number of watts and I thought it would damage the drone or the batteries. Does it affect that it is more than 30 W? Thank you

I am using the mavic air charger and it takes forever :( How can it be for the small capacity bettery? My hight capacity Avata Battery charges faster !

If you go above a certain wattage when charging can it damage the intelligent flight battery?

If time is not a issue would using a smaller charger that goes slower make the batteries last longer?

Im using 24 and 30 watts for my mini 3 pro. And it's good for the battery.

More charging hubs, more batteries, higher watts answers alot of questions

Are the batteries build to withstand fast charging?

Wouldn't using a high-rated charger like the 67 W one cause it to charge too fast, get too hot and actually damage the battery? And the owner's manual states leaving fully charged batteries for extended periods actually damages them!

I was told to be careful if the watts are high they'll mess up the batteries and they'll have less life? I have an LG fast charge block but I don't know what watts it is I just know having all 3 batteries charging at once it got hot. I have a 10watts charger block from a Motorola phone it went to. Can that work?

Is there an implication for battery damage with a too high wattage charger??

No comment about storing fully charged batteries?

I have a 20 watt Apple charger will that do for drone and controller?

In your opinion would you agree it not being a good idea to fall asleep charging them ? Concerned about over charging them 🤷‍♀️ TIA

Can I charge these batteries wiht 30w/12v charger in the car?

Hello, is it safe to charge with 67 wats charger? I know DJI recommends a 30W charger

If the DJI Mini 3 uses a charger below 30W, will it damage it? or is it just slow to charge?

Dji recommends charging mini 3pro battery only max 37w, am i wrong?

I thought slow charge was best for the battery and made it last longer, 5 w charging

Speed and efficiency are 2 very different things

Hi I’m using the charger from the DJI FPV and it’s very fast

Plus battery= Max Charging Power: 58 W

It took a little over 3 hours to charge mine in my car.

But no-one talks about charging the control, it has been charging for more than an hour and the lights still blinking!

8:33 Is this Scott Manley's younger brother?

I read, you are only supposed to use 30 watt max, charging? Any truth to that?

Very bad that it takes so long time to charge with a normal phone charger, and also bad that the drone dont come with a charger at all. Flight time vs charging time, i think both of them is important. I dont want to wait 3 hours for my battery to charge.

More power => shorter loading....what surprise...

The worst decision DJI has made is to not make the charging dock to parallelly charge all batteries. Its infuriating to wait for these batteries to charge one after the other. Takes so much time.

is it true that mini 3 pro using li-ion battery?

Me wondering if my 120W brick would burn the batteries...

I'm so sorry I sold my mini 2 I had 4 batteries and had them charged in one hour that's 80 min about , now I have the mini 3 it takes all day two charge 3 batteries I'm so upset

Does DJI say it is ok to use such a high wattage charger as your MAC power adapter. Hmmmmmm, I thinking maybe not.

Don't take it bad, but this video could have been 1:30 instead of 8:46 minutes

I have to laugh just got this (dji mini pro) wow if they just gave the dam bs to begin with i wouldn't have to wait hours to use this FN THING !!!! oh and the registering crap, and activation ? can we not just buy something that's ready to go ? F me I'm sick of this crap ! remember the days you could just buy something and it works thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!