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Mavic Air universal battery charger – USB/car

A quick update to my previous article about DIY DJI Mavic Air battery charger. Recently I’ve found quite interesting board on AliExpress, that can be used as universal all-in-one charger.

So first of all, as a reminder, to charge Mavic Air battery we have to supply somewhere around 13,2V. This voltage is usually not available both on USB and in the car lighter socket. With USB we could have, with some new Power Delivery capable one, above 12V – but they are still quite rare and expensive (I’m talking about power banks – not chargers). In car usually we have 12,2-12,4V – when charging it can go higher, but directly on battery – it should not in lighter socket. Continue Reading

DIY DJI Mavic Air car/usb charger

Since DJI did something very strange and did not implement (or disabled) battery charging over USB-C build in Mavic Air, I did want to have other means of charging it during travel. On DJI forum there is a topic about some guy saying “he misses USB charging” and lot of crap from other people giving completely useless advice like “use car charger”, “buy car with 110V outlet” – whatever. For me this was completely valid point and I do want to travel with my Air not only by the car, power it from powerbank and have only one cellphone charger for all my devices. Continue Reading