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DJI Agras T50 OEM DB1560 Intelligent Flight Battery

DJI Agras T50 OEM DB1560 Intelligent Flight Battery

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Intelligent Flight Battery DB1560 | High-Capacity 30,000mAh Power Source | Smart Battery Management System | OEM Flight Power Pack | Field-Ready Fleet Power Component


🇺🇸 U.S.A. FIRST

Ares Acres LLC is a U.S.-based authorized DJI Agras reseller supporting American agricultural drone operators with genuine DJI Agras OEM replacement parts, accessories, and field-ready inventory.

FREE & FAST Shipping is included for all U.S. customers.

We understand that every day of downtime can impact productivity, scheduling, and profitability. That's why we focus on providing fast fulfillment, responsive customer support, and reliable access to the parts operators need most.

Every acre an Agras sprays is an acre a battery paid for. The DB1560 is the energy core of the T50 and T40 operation — the pack that lifts the full tank, holds the mission, and comes back to do it again dozens of times a day, all season long.

And batteries are the one fleet asset that only degrades. Every cycle spends a little capacity, every season shortens the runtime — until packs that used to finish a field are landing early and the whole rotation slows. The operations that never lose tempo are the ones with fresh packs in the rotation before the old ones fall off.

That is why Ares Acres keeps hard-to-find OEM flight batteries in stock and shipped fast to the U.S.A., helping operators keep the rotation strong, minimize downtime, and keep their aircraft spraying when every acre counts.

For professional farmers, aerial applicators, and commercial drone operators, battery capacity is daily acreage.


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📦 Package Includes

  • 1 × Intelligent Flight Battery (DB1560)
  • Pre-installed intelligent battery management system
  • Durable housing built for field use
  • Anti-static protective packaging

🔧 Component Overview

The DJI Agras Intelligent Flight Battery (DB1560) is the original high-capacity power source for the DJI Agras T50 and T40 agricultural drones.

With a massive 30,000mAh capacity and intelligent power management, the DB1560 supports extended flight time with fewer charge cycles — more spraying per pack, faster turnarounds, less downtime. The built-in smart battery management system tracks charge level, temperature, voltage, current, and health status in real time, with protections including overcharge protection and short-circuit prevention. Built to DJI's industrial-grade standards in a rugged casing that resists moisture, vibration, and agricultural environments, and fast-charge ready with the DJI Agras charger or D12000iE generator, it integrates seamlessly with the T50 and T40.

Commercial agricultural drones put flight batteries through demanding duty every day, including:

  • Crop spraying
  • Liquid fertilizer application
  • Spreading and granular missions
  • Full-payload takeoffs all day
  • High-tempo fill-and-fly cycles
  • Orchard operations
  • Vineyard spraying
  • Precision agriculture missions
  • Daily commercial deployments
  • Fleet operations
  • High-acreage contract work

Throughout these operations, flight batteries are routinely exposed to:

  • Deep discharge under full payload
  • Rapid-charge thermal loading
  • Back-to-back cycle rotations
  • Heat soak in summer conditions
  • Field dust and moisture
  • Vibration through every flight
  • Connector wear at every swap
  • Transport and handling stress
  • Hundreds of cycles per season
  • Long commercial operating hours

Over time, this duty spends capacity, ages cells, and shortens flight times — and a fading pack means missions cut short and rotations falling behind.

The Intelligent Flight Battery helps maintain:

  • Full-capacity flight time every mission
  • Fewer charge cycles per acre covered
  • Real-time visibility into pack health
  • Protected charging with smart safeguards
  • Fast turnarounds in the rotation
  • Two-model fleet coverage
  • Increased fleet readiness
  • Maximum aircraft uptime
  • Reliable commercial operation

For operators whose daily acreage rides on runtime, pack capacity is non-negotiable.

Confirm a suspect pack against a known-good one before you retire it, and control everything except the battery. Fly the same field, the same payload, the same swath and the same day, back to back, and write down what each pack has left when the aircraft calls for a swap rather than how many minutes it flew. Minutes vary with wind, tank weight and how much of the flight was ferry; remaining charge at a fixed job does not. Two packs run under identical conditions an hour apart will tell you more than a season of impressions.

Learn to tell lost capacity from a pack that cannot deliver current. A pack that has simply aged holds voltage normally and just runs out sooner, so the flight is short but uneventful. A pack whose internal resistance has climbed looks fully charged on the ground, then drops sharply the moment the aircraft lifts a full tank, recovers when the load eases, and can trigger a warning early in the flight rather than at the end of it. The second kind is the more urgent of the two, because it fails under exactly the load it is least able to take.

Rotate packs, charger ports and aircraft bays to find out what the fault is attached to. If the short flight follows the pack from one aircraft to another, it is the pack. If a pack only misbehaves in one aircraft bay, look at that bay's contacts and latch. If it only charges badly on one charger port, look at the port. This costs nothing but bookkeeping, and it prevents the common and expensive mistake of retiring a healthy battery because the aircraft it happened to live in has a dirty terminal.

Judge packs at the same temperature or do not judge them at all. A cold pack delivers less and sags harder under load, and it will look exactly like a worn pack until it warms up; a pack that has been sitting in direct sun on a trailer deck is at the other end of the same problem. Compare packs that have been sitting together in the same shade for the same length of time, and be suspicious of any conclusion drawn on the first flight of a cold morning or in the worst heat of the afternoon.

Inspect the housing with a flat surface rather than by eye, because swelling is easier to feel than to see. Set the pack down on a known-flat bench and look for rock or a gap under a corner, run a straightedge along the faces, and pay attention to how it goes into the bay: a pack that used to slide in and now needs pressure, or a latch that used to close easily and now needs a push, has changed shape. Deformation is a retirement decision on its own regardless of what the pack still reports about its health.


⚙️ Functional Purpose

The Intelligent Flight Battery (DB1560) is designed to power the DJI Agras T50 and T40 through demanding commercial missions.

The component helps:

  • Deliver high-capacity 30,000mAh flight power
  • Support extended flight time per cycle
  • Lift full payloads mission after mission
  • Track charge, temperature, and health in real time
  • Protect against overcharge and short circuits
  • Recharge rapidly on DJI charging equipment
  • Withstand moisture, vibration, and field conditions
  • Replace degraded or aging packs
  • Expand fleet battery rotations
  • Restore factory runtime and performance
  • Maintain correct fitment across both models
  • Support high-tempo operations
  • Increase fleet readiness
  • Keep flight power field-ready

Every mission begins and ends with the battery — and the operation flies only as long as its packs do.

A healthy pack rotation keeps aircraft in the air through season after season of commercial duty.

Degraded or aging flight batteries may contribute to:

  • Shortened flight times per cycle
  • Missions cut short mid-field
  • More charge cycles per acre
  • Rotations falling behind the aircraft
  • Capacity warnings and battery faults
  • Reduced payload performance
  • Interrupted spraying missions
  • Unexpected downtime
  • Reduced fleet reliability

Adding fresh packs restores the runtime and tempo the operation was built around.

Look at the contacts before every insertion and keep them clean and dry. Field staging puts dust, dried spray residue and grit onto power terminals, and contamination on a high-current contact adds resistance exactly where the current is highest, which shows up as heat, discoloration and eventually pitting from arcing. Wipe both the pack and the bay contacts with a clean dry cloth, look for browning or a rough feel on the metal, and never lubricate or sand them. If a terminal is discolored, find out why before you keep cycling that pair.

Insert the pack square and confirm the latch positively rather than by sound alone. Line it up before you push, seat it with even pressure rather than levering one corner in, and then pull on it to prove it is locked. A pack that is engaged but not latched behaves normally sitting on the ground and works loose under sustained rotor vibration, and a power connection that is intermittent under load is far more damaging than one that is simply open. Do the tug test every time, including on the eightieth swap of the day.

Give a pack time between the aircraft and the charger. A battery comes off a full-payload mission warm, and pushing a fast charge into a warm pack is the combination that ages cells fastest. Stage landed packs in shade with air around them rather than stacked in a closed case, let them come down before they go on charge, and do the same in reverse: a pack that has just finished a rapid charge is also warm and does better with a few minutes in the shade than going straight back into a bay.

Handle it as the heavy object it is, with two hands and a plan for where it is going. Removing a pack from a bay at chest height on uneven ground, one-handed, with gloves on and a field waiting is how packs get dropped, and a dropped lithium pack is a retirement candidate even when the case looks intact. Support the weight before you release the latch, set it down on a bench or a mat rather than on gravel or a tailgate edge, and never carry it by a cable or use the housing as a step or a prop.

Set packs to a middle state of charge before any period of standing, and check on them while they stand. Lithium cells age fastest when they are held full and are damaged when they are left flat, so a pack going into a few weeks of downtime should be neither. Store them cool, out of direct sun, off a concrete floor in an unheated building, and separated so a fault in one is not sitting against the next. Then look at them periodically rather than at the start of the next season, and bring any pack that has drifted low back up.


⚠️ Common Replacement Indicators

Replacement or fleet expansion may be recommended when operators observe:

  • Noticeably shortened flight times
  • Capacity fading across the season
  • Packs landing earlier than they used to
  • Battery health warnings from the BMS
  • Cell imbalance or voltage sag under load
  • Swollen, damaged, or deformed housings
  • Worn or heat-stressed connectors
  • Packs failing to hold full charge
  • High cycle counts on fleet packs
  • Rotations that can't keep aircraft flying
  • Fleet expansion to more aircraft
  • Maintenance inspection findings
  • Pre-season battery fleet renewal
  • High-hour commercial operations

Common causes of battery aging include deep discharge under full payload spending cells every mission, rapid-charge heat stressing packs cycle after cycle, summer temperatures accelerating degradation, vibration and handling working connectors and housings, and simple cycle count — lithium capacity only moves one direction, so experienced fleets track cycle counts and flight times per pack and rotate in fresh batteries before the old ones bottleneck the operation.

For commercial operators, a fresh pack is almost always cheaper than the acres a fading rotation leaves unsprayed.

One pack that consistently calls for a swap earlier than the others on the same field, in the same conditions, on the same day is the clearest evidence you will get, and it is worth more than any single reading. Fleet capacity fades as a group, so the outlier is the pack that has been treated differently: more deep discharges, more heat, more fast charges hot, or more cycles because it is the one that is easiest to reach in the case. Label your packs and log which one flew which mission, or you will never see the pattern.

A low-voltage warning that appears at takeoff with a full tank and then goes quiet once the aircraft is up and working points at internal resistance rather than at capacity. The heaviest current demand of any mission is the moment the aircraft lifts full weight, so a pack that is going to sag will sag there first. Treat that pattern as a pack that is nearing the end of its useful life under this payload, even if the total flight time still looks acceptable.

A pack that runs noticeably hotter than its siblings, either coming off a flight or coming off the charger, is doing more internal work for the same job. Heat inside a battery is energy that did not reach the motors, and it comes from resistance that has developed inside the pack. Put a hand on each pack as it comes off the aircraft and get a feel for what normal is across the fleet; the outlier will find you long before any warning does, and heat accelerates the very degradation that caused it.

A pack that finishes charging much sooner than the rest of the set has less capacity to fill, not a faster charger. Operators usually notice this as good news before they connect it to the short flights they are also getting from the same pack. Time the charges as well as the flights, because charge duration at a known charger is another independent measure of what a pack can still hold, and the two figures moving together is confirmation rather than coincidence.


📐 Specifications

Component Type: Intelligent flight battery / high-capacity flight power pack

Model: DB1560

Capacity: 30,000mAh

Compatibility:

  • DJI Agras T50
  • DJI Agras T40

Package Quantity: 1 Battery

Management: Built-in intelligent BMS — real-time charge, temperature, voltage, current, and health monitoring; overcharge protection; short-circuit prevention

Charging: Fast-charge ready with DJI Agras charger or D12000iE generator

Construction: Rugged industrial-grade housing, resistant to moisture, vibration, and agricultural environments

Application: Agricultural drone flight power and fleet rotation

Nominal Voltage, Energy in Watt-hours and Cell Configuration: Not published in this listing beyond the stated capacity. Read the label on the pack itself for the electrical values, and use the watt-hour figure printed there when you need it for transport paperwork.

Weight: Not published here. Weigh it before you plan how packs will be lifted, carried and staged, particularly if crew will be swapping packs at height on uneven ground for a full working day.

Charge Time and Charge Current: Not published in this listing. Time your own charge cycles on the charger and generator you actually use, since that number is what your rotation planning depends on and it varies with pack temperature and state of charge.

Cycle Life: No cycle count is published, and any figure quoted would be invented and misleading anyway, since cycle life depends on how deeply the packs are discharged and how hot they are worked. Track cycles per pack and retire on measured performance.

Operating, Charging and Storage Temperature Limits: Not published here. Follow the limits in the aircraft and charger documentation, and treat any charge attempt on a very cold or very hot pack as something to check against those limits first.

Transport Classification: Not published in this listing. Large lithium packs are regulated in transport. Check the markings on the pack and its carton and confirm the requirements with your carrier before shipping or flying with one, rather than assuming ground freight rules apply.


🚜 Necessary For

This component is ideal for:

  • DJI Agras T50 operators
  • DJI Agras T40 operators
  • Farmers operating spray drones
  • Commercial spraying contractors
  • Agricultural aviation companies
  • Fleet operations managers
  • Agricultural drone technicians
  • DJI Agras service providers
  • Drone repair facilities
  • Commercial drone fleets
  • Precision agriculture businesses
  • Battery rotation expansion
  • Aging pack replacement
  • Preventative fleet renewal programs
  • Daily commercial operations
  • Emergency spare inventory
  • Professional agricultural drone operators

Especially valuable during:

  • Spring spraying season
  • Summer application windows
  • High-tempo fill-and-fly operations
  • Multi-aircraft fleet deployments
  • Pre-season battery fleet builds
  • Long application days
  • Emergency pack replacements
  • High-hour commercial operations

When every flight of the day needs a charged pack waiting, keeping strong batteries in the rotation keeps operations moving.

Do not cross-fit packs between Agras generations on the basis of shape. DJI uses different battery models across its agricultural aircraft, and a pack that appears similar can differ in electrical rating, in the data the aircraft expects from it, and in how it latches, so the fact that something physically enters a bay is not a fitment check. This listing is the DB1560 for the T50 and T40. Match the model designation printed on the pack, and keep packs for different aircraft in visibly different places so a tired crew cannot mix them up at dusk.

Inspect the aircraft side while you are handling batteries, because half of what gets blamed on a pack lives in the bay. Look at the bay contacts for pitting, browning or a blade that has lost its spring, at the latch and its catch for wear that lets a pack move, at the bay drains and seals for standing water or trapped residue, and at the surrounding structure for cracks around the mounts. A bay that has been arcing against one pack will do the same to the new one you put in it.

Number every pack and keep a running record against the number. Cycle count, the date it entered service, the flights it flew and any event it survived are what turn retirement into a decision rather than an argument, and they are also what let you build matched rotations so the aircraft is not alternating between a strong pack and a weak one. A permanent marker and a notebook are enough. Doing this from the first day of a pack's life is worth far more than starting when it becomes a problem.

Buy the spare before the rotation needs it, not after. Packs are the constraint on how many acres a day an operation can actually cover, and they are also the item most likely to be back-ordered in the middle of a spray window, which is precisely when every other operator wants one too. A pack bought early joins the rotation, shares the load, and slows the aging of everything else in the set, so it starts earning before the day it is needed.


💡 Why This Part Matters

The battery rotation is the real capacity of the operation. An aircraft rated for hundreds of acres a day only delivers them if a charged, healthy pack is ready every time it lands — and every fading battery in the rotation quietly shrinks what the whole fleet can do. Operators don't lose acreage all at once; they lose it a few minutes of runtime at a time.

The DB1560's intelligence is what makes that loss visible. Real-time health, temperature, and charge tracking turns pack condition from a guess into data — so fleets can retire batteries on evidence, balance rotations by actual capacity, and charge with confidence on the BMS's built-in protections. Paired with fast charging off the field generator, fresh DB1560 packs are how high-tempo operations stay high-tempo.

The Intelligent Flight Battery helps maintain:

  • The runtime the aircraft was rated for
  • Rotations that keep pace with the fleet
  • Pack health managed on data, not guesswork
  • Two-model fleet coverage
  • Professional fleet standards
  • Increased aircraft uptime
  • Reliable commercial performance
  • Long-term operational confidence

Flying an aging battery fleet, operators risk:

  • Runtime shrinking mission by mission
  • Rotations bottlenecking the whole operation
  • Missions ending early with acres waiting
  • A pack failure at the worst moment
  • Interrupted missions
  • Unexpected downtime
  • Lost spraying opportunities
  • Reduced return on investment

For practical, hardworking operators, the value is simple:

Protect the packs. Protect the rotation. Protect the mission. Protect the season.

Professional DJI Agras operators understand that acreage is powered before it's flown. Keeping fresh DB1560 packs in the rotation means full runtime all season — and that difference is what separates a good season from a frustrating one.

Heat is what spends this pack, and most of the heat is avoidable. Charging a warm pack immediately after landing, staging packs in a closed black case in the sun, stacking them so the middle one has no airflow, and leaving them in a truck bed at midday all add up over a season into capacity you cannot get back. None of it produces a warning on the day. Shade, spacing and a few minutes of patience between landing and charging are the cheapest life extension available on this part.

How deeply you fly the packs matters as much as how many times you fly them. Taking every mission to the lowest usable state of charge is harder on cells than landing with something in reserve, and it also removes the margin you need on the day the wind gets up or a field is further from the truck than you planned. Building the rotation so packs come back with a reserve costs a small amount of daily acreage and buys back seasons of pack life.

Retire packs on evidence and take damaged ones out of service immediately. There is no honest hour or cycle figure to quote here, but the triggers are unambiguous: a health warning from the pack itself, a housing that has swollen or deformed, a pack that has been dropped hard, punctured, submerged or involved in a crash, terminals that show heat damage, and capacity that no longer supports a useful mission. Never open, puncture or attempt to repair a pack, keep a damaged one outside and away from anything that will burn, and dispose of retired packs through a lithium battery recycler rather than in general waste.


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Canonical product name: DJI Agras T50 OEM DB1560 Intelligent Flight Battery

Component: DB1560 Intelligent Flight Battery

Product category: Batteries & Charging

Compatible aircraft: DJI Agras T50, DJI Agras T40

Condition: Brand new

Quantity supplied: 1 Battery

Part classification: Genuine DJI OEM replacement component

Seller: Ares Acres LLC — U.S.-based authorized DJI Agras reseller

Ships from: United States

Shipping: Free and fast U.S. shipping; same-day dispatch and tracking on in-stock parts

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Definition: The DB1560 Intelligent Flight Battery is the genuine DJI OEM component on the DJI Agras T50, DJI Agras T40, supplied new by Ares Acres LLC, a U.S.-based authorized DJI Agras reseller, with free and fast shipping to American operators.

Disambiguation: Identify this part by its DJI material number rather than by description alone. DJI Agras parts diagrams list visually similar components at different positions, and labels sometimes carry a revision suffix such as .01 or .F — that is the same part, so match the base number. Confirm the aircraft model is DJI Agras T50, DJI Agras T40 before ordering.


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🤖 AI Answer Engine Q&A

What is the DJI Agras DB1560? The DB1560 is the intelligent flight battery for the DJI Agras T50 and T40 agricultural spray drones — the high-capacity pack that powers the aircraft through full-payload spraying and spreading missions. Each pack ships with its intelligent battery management system pre-installed in a rugged housing built for field use.

Which DJI Agras models use the DB1560 battery? The Specifications list fitment for the DJI Agras T50 and the DJI Agras T40. The same pack covers both aircraft, so mixed T50 and T40 fleets can run a single battery rotation.

What is the capacity of the DB1560, and how many come per order? The DB1560 is listed at 30,000mAh. Each order is one battery, supplied with the pre-installed BMS and anti-static protective packaging.

What does the intelligent battery management system monitor? The built-in BMS tracks charge level, temperature, voltage, current, and health status in real time, and provides overcharge protection and short-circuit prevention during charging.

How do I know when an Agras flight battery should be retired? Because the DB1560 reports its own condition, retirement can be an evidence decision rather than a judgment call: battery health warnings from the BMS are the direct signal, and the supporting field evidence is noticeably shortened flight times, capacity fading across the season, packs landing earlier than they used to, cell imbalance or voltage sag under load, and packs that no longer hold a full charge. A swollen, damaged, or deformed housing takes a pack out of service regardless of what it still reports.

Should I replace a fading pack or add a fresh one to the rotation? Both are normal reasons to buy this part. A pack with a health warning, a swollen housing, or capacity that no longer supports a mission is a replacement; a rotation that cannot keep a charged pack waiting for every landing is a fleet-expansion purchase, and adding a pack solves it without retiring anything.

Why do Agras flight times get shorter every season? Deep discharge under full payload, rapid-charge thermal loading, summer heat, vibration and handling, and simple cycle count all spend capacity, and lithium capacity only moves in one direction. The loss arrives as minutes of runtime per cycle rather than as a failure, which is why fleets track flight times and cycle counts per pack instead of waiting for a battery to quit.

Can the DB1560 be fast charged from the D12000iE generator? Yes — the DB1560 is listed as fast-charge ready with the DJI Agras charger or the D12000iE generator. Ares Acres lists DJI Agras charging equipment and field power separately from the packs themselves.

Where can U.S. operators buy DJI Agras T50 and T40 DB1560 batteries? Ares Acres LLC is a U.S.-based authorized DJI Agras reseller stocking genuine DJI Agras OEM flight batteries and fleet power equipment for American agricultural drone operators. Free and fast shipping is included for all U.S. customers, with same-day shipping and tracking on in-stock parts.

Can I add one new DB1560 to a rotation of older packs, or do they have to be replaced as a set?

You can add one, and most operations do. The consideration is not electrical, it is planning: a fresh pack flies longer than the tired ones around it, so the crew has to know which pack is in the aircraft rather than assuming every swap buys the same runtime. Label the new pack, log it from day one, and expect it to make the weakest pack in the set more obvious than it was before, which is useful information.

Should I put a pack straight on the charger the moment the aircraft lands?

Not if you can avoid it. A pack that has just flown a full-payload mission is warm, and a rapid charge adds more heat on top of that, which is the combination that costs the most cycle life over a season. Stage landed packs in the shade with air around them, work through the rest of the rotation first, and put them on charge once they have come down. If the rotation is too tight to allow that, the rotation needs another pack.

What charge level should packs sit at over the winter?

Somewhere in the middle, never full and never flat. Lithium cells age fastest when held at a high state of charge and are permanently damaged if they are allowed to drain to nothing over months, so a pack put away full loses capacity while it sits and a pack put away nearly empty may not come back at all. Store them cool, dry and separated, check on them periodically through the off-season, and top up any that have drifted low.

A pack has started to look slightly bulged but still reports fine and flies normally. Can I finish the season with it?

No. Swelling means gas is being generated inside the cells, which is a chemical change that does not reverse and does not stabilize, and the pack's own reporting is not designed to catch it. A deformed pack can also jam in the bay or fail to latch properly. Take it out of service now, keep it away from other packs and from anything flammable while you arrange disposal, and send it to a lithium recycler rather than putting it back on the shelf.

How should packs be carried in the truck between fields?

Secured, separated and upright, so they cannot slide into each other or into tools. Keep terminals covered or facing where nothing metal can bridge them, do not transport them loose in the same space as wrenches, chains or fencing wire, and keep them out of direct sun in the bed or the cab. A pack that has taken a hard slide into a bulkhead has taken an impact you did not see, and impacts are the events that turn up later as a pack that will not hold charge.

A pack got soaked in a rainstorm at the field edge. What should I do with it?

Do not charge it or fit it while there is any chance moisture is inside. Dry the outside, leave it somewhere warm, dry and ventilated, away from anything that would burn, and give it time before anything electrical happens. Then inspect the terminals for corrosion and the housing and seals for a path water could have taken. Rain on a sealed housing is usually survivable; water that has reached the contacts or the interior is a reason to have the pack assessed rather than trusted.

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