Discontinued batteries for I1 - what now?

firecop9774 · Aug 12, 2020

Hello all,

I've been away from flying for over a year (due to a family illness). Now that I'm back, I'm reading and seeing absurd prices on a few, scarce TB47 and TB48 batteries.

Is there anyone available to rebuild these with new cells? Does DJI rebuild and renew them? Is there any other fix to keep my fleet of 2 I1's airborne?

Absent of that, is the entire (awesome) Inspire 1 platform doomed to a slow, prolonged death?

Thank you for any and all input.

Tim

skillet · Aug 12, 2020

firecop9774 said:
Hello all,

I've been away from flying for over a year (due to a family illness). Now that I'm back, I'm reading and seeing absurd prices on a few, scarce TB47 and TB48 batteries.

Is there anyone available to rebuild these with new cells? Does DJI rebuild and renew them? Is there any other fix to keep my fleet of 2 I1's airborne?

Absent of that, is the entire (awesome) Inspire 1 platform doomed to a slow, prolonged death?

Thank you for any and all input.

Tim

Oh no!!??!?

Following

Marketal · Aug 12, 2020

I have the same issues. 7 batteries in total - 3 x TB47 ; 4 x TB48. Expensive on eBay, not available from DJI.

Planned obsolescence - cynically arranged by DJI. It's why the planet is being destroyed.

The Editor · Aug 12, 2020

firecop9774 said:
Hello all,

I've been away from flying for over a year (due to a family illness). Now that I'm back, I'm reading and seeing absurd prices on a few, scarce TB47 and TB48 batteries.

Is there anyone available to rebuild these with new cells? Does DJI rebuild and renew them? Is there any other fix to keep my fleet of 2 I1's airborne?

Absent of that, is the entire (awesome) Inspire 1 platform doomed to a slow, prolonged death?

Thank you for any and all input.

Tim

Debated to death already

Using search before posting usually yields a plethora of results......

Search results for query: discontinued Inspire 1 batteries

inspirepilots.com

Starz · Aug 12, 2020

One of the reasons I disposed of the Inspire1.
Nothing lasts forever.

Davidc · Aug 13, 2020

You can still get them on alibaba

LinusGrane · Aug 13, 2020

Is it possible to make knockoff/aftermarket battery's four the inspire 1?
And how about recelling old batterys? US $5.0 |ZDF 3.8V max 4.35V 2250mAh di Ricambio Lipo cellula di batteria di riparazione Della Batteria per Dji Inspire 1 TB47 Intelligente batteria|Componenti e accessori| - AliExpress

S White · Aug 13, 2020

It is a bummer. I have a I1 with 6 batteries in great shape, and I may decide in the near future to sell the whole package. Big decision since it is definitely a great backup rig for my I2.

Brett8883 · Aug 13, 2020

firecop9774 said:
Hello all,

I've been away from flying for over a year (due to a family illness). Now that I'm back, I'm reading and seeing absurd prices on a few, scarce TB47 and TB48 batteries.

Is there anyone available to rebuild these with new cells? Does DJI rebuild and renew them? Is there any other fix to keep my fleet of 2 I1's airborne?

Absent of that, is the entire (awesome) Inspire 1 platform doomed to a slow, prolonged death?

Thank you for any and all input.

Tim

You can get them from the US. For whatever reason there seems to be these shortages in other parts of the works but not the US.

Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything ?

Barry P · Aug 13, 2020

Brett8883 said:
You can get them from the US. For whatever reason there seems to be these shortages in other parts of the works but not the US.

Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything ?

Any chance of a link so I can purchase some of these please?

Brett8883 · Aug 14, 2020

Barry P said:
Any chance of a link so I can purchase some of these please?

DJI Inspire 1 TB48 Battery 5700mAh Intelligent Flight Battery

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thesnake · Aug 15, 2020

out of stock................

StudioKamar · Aug 15, 2020

In Poland my friend is trying to change lipo batteries to liion's and reprogram internal battery electronics to work with LiIon. We are on the test phase right now. Inspire is flying good on those packs and i think now we need to tune electronics so please do not throw out old batteries.

dougcjohn · Aug 16, 2020

StudioKamar said:
In Poland my friend is trying to change lipo batteries to liion's and reprogram internal battery electronics to work with LiIon. We are on the test phase right now. Inspire is flying good on those packs and i think now we need to tune electronics so please do not throw out old batteries.

Now that is a new positive direction!
Any performance stats or observations you can share at this stage of project?

It may be an old craft, but if you can complete this project... you may have a large number of Buyers that would purchase.

Your statement to retain old batteries.. is that to rebuild with existing housing and electronics board?

Would this be a instructional kit or require sending to Poland? That might present some challenges to ship USA to Poland for a LiPo battery.

Good Luck on Project!

StudioKamar · Aug 16, 2020

I can ask about some stats because i know that my friend is testing them with X3, X5 and X5R on number of different batteries.

Regarding my statement. It is a process of rebuilding old batteries and reprogramming the electronics on them to understand new packs and react acordingly for example voltages of LiIons are little different and craft could think that they are depleten and in reality they are not so this needs to be throughly tested.

As i said the electronics need to be reprogrammed so if all works it need to be send to Poland but maybe it be possible to send electronics to reprogramming and change the battery pack by yourself without need of sending them. We will see