I plugged the DJI mini 3 drone into a usbc charger and the green lights started to flash up to 3 leds, 10 or so minutes later there was a horrible smell and my drone melted a hole straight out the side.
Anyone else had this?
WOW this is a bit of a first - have you crashed the drone recently ?
New battery that could be a fake ? DJI batteries are intelligent so they keep track of the cell’s / the health of them/ the temp of them - so they do a fair bit to try and stop this from happening and will just not charge. Reach out to DJI and see what they can co do help you out - they may offer a replacement of it even if you don’t have DJI Refresh they will make a plan - they are good at that.
That’s incredibly rare - in the photo, the upper body of the drone has some harsh looking dents (might just be the lighting) … do you know if it ever crashed prior … might have been taken apart and rebuilt with a bent pin shorting a cell …
Contact DJI and explain the situation and how lucky you were still at home to unplug it to stop it catching fire
Ooft. I can’t recall anybody posting similar problems with DJI batteries. I’m with @LE60LAD here, reach out to DJI.
Also, you say you’re new to DJI drones, so is this a recent purchase? If it is and you got more than one battery with it I’d be very careful where you’re storing the others until you get an answer from DJI. At the very least, not in the house. But also Lipo bags if you have them. I have one of these that I keep mine in if they’re going to be sitting around unused for a while:
It does look like crash damage on the rear of the mini3, that’s just where the battery plugs in. The photo doesn’t show the rear of the battery, is there any crash damage there? If so the impact may have damaged the battery connector and the main pcb in the drone causing the charging circuits to misbehave.
If you didn’t crash and purchased from a reputable source try contacting them for a refund. If it was ebay sold as seen then probably bad luck. Try contacting DJI, they may offer a discount on a replacement.
Isn’t the damage on the back more an indication of deformation of the plastic due to heating? 
I’ve one of those too Joe - highly recommended… …though mine’s 7.62 ball rather than .50 cal, and it came free with my daily shilling 
I would guess the charger was a fast charger and too powerful. I fried an expensive pair of headphones doing the same with a 45W charger. If not, potentially faulty.
I use a 100w charger to charge all my devices including the DJI mini 3 pro, I don’t use cheap as chips ones
The charger negotiates the rate with the BMS, it can’t over charge
Unless the charger or the BMS if faulty
Same
200W here, charges all my batteries, battery banks, phone& iPad .
Sorry to see that, that’s not good.
Raise a case with DJI support, that shouldn’t have happened.
They’ll ask a few simple questions, maybe ask you to download some data from the drone and then sort a repair / replacement. It may be FOC or a nominal charge.
As someone else as already stated - labour the point that you were lucky because it could have caused a fire at your home.
It was a standard iPhone charger 5w
Bought new from Argos. No damage to the battery or drone
Had you had it long? I’m guessing not, as you say new to DJI drones? Definitely a warranty call to DJI - if you haven’t already.
The only thing I do differently is I never charged a battery in the drone - I’ve always used a charger - but that shouldn’t make any difference. I wonder if, since the Mini 3 is quite an old model now, it hadn’t been sitting around in an Argos warehouse, unused, and the battery had discharged too much? Wiser heads than me will probably be able to answer that one. Good luck with the claim! Since they almost burned your house down I’d be angling for a newer model
Purchased second hand buy any chance
And mate I sure you don’t know how lucky you are to have not burnt your home down
This happens a lot when people use the wrong type of cable they plug into the adaptor and it over heats the cable
This may have been the root cause.
I’d imagine it literally takes ages to charge with only a 5w supply. However heat will still be generated, so a combination of time on charge and heat may have caused the issue