Hello, I presently live in Fairhope, AL having returned to the area. I have enjoyed my Typhoon Q500 for a number of years in the past. However, after cracking it up some time ago, I shelved the guy as I was frustrated with my poor performance. I have decided to take it back off the shelf and put it back together with some spare parts I had. All is good... except I can't remember the password for the camera! Anyway, I look forward to participating in the Forum and seeing if there are any other Yuneec flyers in the area.
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Good job finding the password in the other thread!!
1234567890 except the very rare cases when someone changed it.
Camera bound with no issues. So, the drone is back 100%. Now, about that pilot...
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Is this model worth buying now in 2026. I’ve never seen one before in person but I’d really like to add a q500 4k to the collection. I almost purchased one until i realised it had a go pro and then found out it was a different model , i think the g or something but id like the one with a cgo3.
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It would be to me but being over 250 grams you will have to get it registered.
Thank you. I did just that as I had disposed of the older ones a few years ago. I have one I purchased on Amazon 2 weeks ago to see if I could get this drone going again. Succes! Now to get another one. Suggestions?
I've been happy with mine. The newer ones may have longer flight times and simpler controllers, but this one is rugged... take it from me!
This is true, and I had to do it in order to be "legal" since I was coming back to flying after several years not, but it wasn't too difficult. It is a big drone and somewhat heavy, but I feel that creates ruggedness some of us need. Meet the neediest!
Don't use the stock charger, if you don't have a professional charger it's time to buy one.
Batteries must be kept in "storage" mode when unused, you need special adapter cable to do that, like this one:
See also here about batteries use and maintaining: (remembering John...
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Q500 batteries are available here:
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I’ve just purchased the q500. Luckily I came across a new one in 2026 . The batteries will no doubt be shot with age . What is the biggest generic battery any of u guys managed to fit into the quad .
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New (never used) batteries usually come with reduced activity of the chemical processes for longer storage time. They will get full activity after some charge/discharge cycles.
What I would do:
- check if there is a new battery in the package with voltage in storage mode
- if so I would charge the battery, discharge to storage voltage and charge again
- measure internal resistance before and after if you have an intelligent charger
- put a cheap SD card into the ST10 (if there is no)
- do some test flights (probably without camera)
- check the flightlogs how the battery behaves, massive voltage drops -> waste, moderate voltage drop -> check again after some charge/discharge cycles
Maybe you can find the battery good for further usage.
What I would do:
- check if there is a new battery in the package with voltage in storage mode
- if so I would charge the battery, discharge to storage voltage and charge again
- measure internal resistance before and after if you have an intelligent charger
- put a cheap SD card into the ST10 (if there is no)
- do some test flights (probably without camera)
- check the flightlogs how the battery behaves, massive voltage drops -> waste, moderate voltage drop -> check again after some charge/discharge cycles
Maybe you can find the battery good for further usage.
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I will try this. I thought due to age the batteries would have no chance. It’s worth a go.
Why the sd card for the controller?
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The SD card (32GB or less and most likely has an 8GB or 16GB there already) is where the flightlogs get stored. The flightlogs will allow you to have a better understanding of how the battery is doing. Use @h-elsner ’s Q500log2kml program or the one dedicated to analyzing battery health.
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A yes this makes sense. Will the newer models store the flight logs on the st16, st16s and st16e without an sd card? Perhaps these have some internal memory.
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On that point with the battery, I recently was trying to recreate an error on the typhoon h where gps would disable when battery became critically low. I took a practically new original h520 battery and drained it in the typhoon h past all 3 low battery warnings. By the time I landed it was almost completely dead. I think if I gave it any throttle it would have suffered a power cut . After about 30 minutes I storage charged the battery. Next day I fully charged it again and when flying the battery no longer performed correctly. It would go from 100 to 50 in about 2 minutes and after landing would spring up again to over 80 percent. The voltage sag was incredible and I put it down to damage from over draining the battery. I storage charged it again on the dy5 and then later fully charged it again. The battery was still shot and hadn’t recovered at all. If that battery was cycled several times is it possible for it to recover or did the over discharge destroy it.
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The discharge to very low voltage can destroy it. Usually it is one cell that will get drained too much. It is the weakest cell that is in danger. That's why a balance of the cells is so important. The other cells may be still good.
ST10's have no shared partition of the filesystem. Only the SD card is accessible. The ST16 (S,E) and ST24 have a shared partition of internal memory. No SD card needed to have the advantages to store files there like pictures, video downstream, thermal stream and logs.
ST10's have no shared partition of the filesystem. Only the SD card is accessible. The ST16 (S,E) and ST24 have a shared partition of internal memory. No SD card needed to have the advantages to store files there like pictures, video downstream, thermal stream and logs.
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