Night Flight LED Light for DJI Mavic Mini, retail $5.69* ()
Manufactured by BRDRC (No known URL)
Last updated 07-22-21
The Night Flight LED Light for DJI Mavic Mini (hereinafter, probably just called the Night Flight) is an unexpectedly potent flashing light (red and blue) specifically designed to fit the DJI Mavic Mini FPV R/C Drone; though it can be affixed to pretty much any drone.
The Night Flight is designed to be mounted to the underside of your drone so that the lights can be seen from the ground.
These lights operate from a pair of CR927 lithium coin cells -- which are included and already installed.
This means that they do not use a single microjoule of your drone's power, and will continue to flash even if your drone crashes and its flight battery pops out or otherwise goes to pot.
* This price was for a package of four (4) units, including batteries.
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To use the Night Flight, remove the thin paper covering off the bottom of the unit, and press it onto the underside of the front pylons (propeller arms) of your DJI Mavic Mini into that circular depression right behind the drone's landing sprigs.
Here, let's just let the following photograph do the talking here.
Snap, click, and it's off to the Fotomat we go...
To activate the Night Flight, twist the upper half clockwise (as though tightening it) until it springs to life.
Turm it just a hair more (1/20th of a turn ought to do here) just to be certain that it stays on.
To neutralise them, twist the upper half of the light counterclockwise (anticlockwise) until it turns off.
To change the batteries in the Night Flight, unscrew the upper half of the unit until it comes off. Use you foot to gently scoot it under the Lazy Boy chair with all of the piss ants, clothes moth larvae (caterpillars), carpet beetles, and silverfish with empty stomachs and full bladders who sniff at it, try to eat it, find it unpalatable so they just go poddy on it...O WAIT!!! THAT'S THE GOOD PART!!! So just set it aside instead!
Tip the two tired old CR927 cells out, and dispose of them as you see fit (or recycle them, if your community has a battery reclamation program in place).
Insert two new CR927 cells into the base, orienting them so that their negatives (button-ends) go in first.
Finally, screw the top piece back on, and then back it off slightly when the unit springs to life.
Aren't you glad that you didn't push that upper half of the product under that Lazy Boy chair with all of those bugs now?
You might also want to grab a can of Raid® or Black Flag™ and discharge a good quantity of it under that chair, as it's plain to see I forgot my hat...O NOOOO!!! There I go thinking about the thrash metal band AnthraX again!!! The part about the hat is from the song, "I'm the Man '91" from the album, "Attack of the Killer B's"...what I meant to say was that it's plain to see that you have a bug problem going on in your living room!
This instrument is reasonably durable, but because it simply wasn't designed to take significant abuse, I won't perform, "The Smack Test" on it. I know you love to see me break things, but it ain't gonna happen today, folks.
I will also forego, "The Toliet Test" for much the same reason.
This is also not a flashlight meant to be used every bloody day; bashed, thrashed, trashed, and abused. So I won't try to drown it in the cistern ( toliet tank), bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a front porch in effort to try and expose the bare Metalmarineangemon - er - the bare Metalkumamon - um that's not it either...the bare Metalwargrowlmon...er...uh...wait a sec here...THE BARE METAL (guess I've been watching too much Digimon again! - now I'm just making {vulgar term for feces} up!!!), let my mother's big dog's ghost or my sister's kitty cats spring a leak (uranate) on it, hose it down with a gun, run over it with a 450lb Quickie Pulse 6 motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a medium ball peen hammer in order to bash it open to check it for candiosity, fire it from the cannoñata, drop it down the top of Mt. Erupto (I guess I've been watching the TV program "Viva Piñata" too much again - candiosity is usually checked with a laser-type device on a platform with a large readout (located at Piñata Central {aka. "Party Central"}), with a handheld wand that Langston Lickatoad uses, or with a pack-of-cards-sized device that Fergy Fudgehog uses; the cannoñata (also located at Piñata Central) is only used to shoot piñatas to piñata parties away from picturesque Piñata Island, and Mt. Erupto is an active volcano on Piñata Island), send it to the Daystrom Institute for additional analyses, or perform other indecencies on it that a flashlight might have to have performed on it. So this section of the web page will be ***SIGNIFICANTLY*** more bare than this section of the web page on a page about a flashlight that was born to be a flashlight and nothing but a flashlight.
I've already managed to lose two of them -- one apparently got nocked off my drone while en route to a flying venue and I misplaced the other here at home.
Attempted photograph of one of the units in its "on" state.
Spectrographic analysis of the LEDs in the Night Flight.
Spectrographic analysis of the blue LED in the Night Flight; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 445nm and 465nm to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 452.590nm.
Spectrographic analysis of the red LED in the Night Flight; spectrometer's response narrowed to a band between 620nm and 640m to pinpoint peak wavelength, which is 629.340nm.
The raw spectrometer data (tab-delimited that can be loaded into Excel) is at nfl.txt.
***EPILEPSY WARNING*** (FLASHING LIGHTS)
Video allowing you to see the Night Flight LED Light for DJI Mavic Mini doing its thing.
Video allowing you to see the Night Flight LED Light for DJI Mavic Mini in actual use.
In this video, they are affixed to the front pylons (just behind the landing sprigs) of my DJI Mavic Mini FPV R/C Drone.
The music that you hear is zax from the coin-op arcade video game, "Afterburner ][" aka., "Afterburner Deluxe" by Sega from 1987.
This product is not audio (sound)-sensitive in any manner; the music may safely be ignored or even muted if it piddles you off.
A second video of the Night Flight LED Light for DJI Mavic Mini in action.
TEST NOTES:
Test units were purchased on Ebay on 04-11-21 and were received on 04-30-21.
UPDATE: 07-22-21
One of the units fell off my Mavic Mini in mid-flight the other night and I was not able to find it, so the dreadful, "" icon will have to be appended to its listings on this website.
PROS:
Unique red & blue strobe
Unexpectedly bright
Most definitely water-resistant
Totally self-contained
NEUTRAL:
CONS:
Not rechargeable
Uses a battery type that may be difficult to locate in brick-and-mortar stores (that's what nocked that last star off)
MANUFACTURER: BRDRC
PRODUCT TYPE: LED marker strobe for drones
LAMP TYPE: Chip-type LED
No. OF LAMPS: 2 (1 ea. red and blue)
BEAM TYPE: Wide flood
REFLECTOR TYPE: N/A
SWITCH TYPE: Twist case halves on/off
CASE MATERIAL: Plastic
BEZEL: LEDs protected by epoxy dome
BATTERY: 2x CR927 lithium button cells
CURRENT CONSUMPTION: Unknown/unable to measure
WATER- AND URANATION-RESISTANT: Yes
SUBMERSIBLE: Yes, to shallow depths for brief periods at minimum
ACCESSORIES: 8x batteries, 4x pcs. double-stick tape
SIZE: 14.20mm Dia. X 12.10mm H
WEIGHT: 2.20g (0.077 oz.) incl. batteries
COUNTRY OF MANUFACTURE: Unknown/not stated
WARRANTY: Unknown/not stated
PRODUCT RATING:
Night Flight LED Light for DJI Mavic Mini *
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