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10. Commissioning of the Quadrocopter
a) Charging the Flight Battery
Caution, important!
Even though this would easily be possible when operating the model later, never charge the flight battery
when installed for reasons of safety. Always remove the flight battery from the model for recharging! Place
the flight battery on a fire-proof underground when charging and do not charge the battery unsupervised.
The flight battery is charged with the enclosed USB charging cable. For this, the charging cable is connected to a USB
socket of a computer/notebook or to a conventional USB plug-in charger.
Charging:
Connect the flight battery (1) with the connector protected
against polarity reversal of the USB charging cable (2).
Work with the required care and do not apply any unnec-
essary force.
Once the USB plug of the charging cable (3) is connected
to a USB socket of a computer/notebook or a USB plug-in
charger, charging commences automatically.
The red charge indicator LED in the USB plug (4) lights up
when charging is completed and the rechargeable battery
is fully charged.
Disconnect the rechargeable battery from the USB charg-
ing cable at once after charging and pull the USB plug of
the charging cable from the computer/notebook or from
the plug-in charger.
For photo-technical reasons, the USB charging
cable is illustrated in the wound-up state in fig
-
ure 4. Before first use, the cable retainer should
be opened and the cable unwound.
Practical advice:
To check the charge control light in the USB plug, briefly
disconnect the rechargeable battery from the charging ca-
ble while charging, before it is fully charged. In this case,
the red LED in the USB plug must light up. If you connect
the incompletely charged rechargeable battery again, the
LED must go out.
Attention!
Do not connect the USB cable to a USB hub without a separate mains adapter (e.g. a keyboard USB port,
etc.), because these will not provide sufficient current for charging.
The operating system does not recognize any new hardware after connection, because the USB port is only used
for power supply. Please observe that the USB ports of your computer/notebook are usually only active when the
computer/notebook is switched on.
Therefore, we recommend to only connect the charging cable to a computer/notebook that is switched on.
Figure 4