I dropped off my drone to repair 1 arm which was broken. When I dropped the drone off, he requested I leave the drone, the 3 hub battery charger, 3 batteries and the flight controller. Before dropping off equipment, everything was working fine except the broken arm. Today, I picked up the stuff. While inspecting the drone and other equipment, I had an extremely hard time taking out the batteries from the charging hub. So much so I almost broke each battery taking them out. They were stuck inside the hub.
I asked the owner why it was so difficult to take these batteries out because they definitely were not like this when I left them with him. He claimed the batteries sometimes swell up. I told him that I've never had this issue and they weren't like this when I dropped them off. Then I started wondering, why would he have me leave all of my batteries and the charging hub and the controller. Shouldn't he have all of these thing for test flight when he is finished repairing the arm on the drone. Then he asked if I flew the drone in the heat of the summer. I said yes but not in extreme heat and that again, I never had this issue with the batteries swelling.
I can put 2 and 2 together. It's suspicious for sure that now all of my batteries are junk. I'm also missing my propeller holder which I realized I was missing when I got home. It's evident this owner of this shop replaced my good batteries with his crappy ones.
I'm an honest man and always have been but beware of this shop. They are untruthful, dishonest and unethical. read more