A drone with a weight of less than 250 g has significant regulatory advantages in many countries. However, there seems to be some uncertainty about the actual weight of the new DJI Mavic Mini.
I weighed mine on an A&D GX-400 precision balance, which has a readability of 0.001 g and uses an internal motorized weight to adjust (“calibrate”) itself.
With the gimbal cover removed and a battery installed, but without a micro SD card, the Mavic Mini came in at around 247.23 g:
DJI Mavic Mini weight without micro SD card by DigitalScalesBlog.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.The takeoff weight including a micro SD card was 247.49 g:
DJI Mavic Mini weight with micro SD card by DigitalScalesBlog.com is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.Before anyone asks, I don’t have a traceable calibration certificate for this demo scale. However, I did test it using a 200 g and a 50 g class F1 weight, which gave me readings between 250.002 g and 250.004 g. I’m therefore confident that my drone has a takeoff weight of less than 248 g.
What does this mean for your Mavic Mini? Not that much, as we don’t know DJI’s manufacturing tolerances. However, I have not yet seen a credible claim that any Mavic Mini weighs more than 249 grams. Speaking of tolerances, my three batteries have the following weights:
- 99,15 g (used above)
- 99.29 g
- 98.75 g
The Japanese version of the drone uses lighter batteries with a lower capacity to stay below 200 g.
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