The DJI Mini 5 Pro was announced just 2 days ago, on September 17, 2025. It is an ultralight category drone with a C0 marking and features a large 1-inch sensor, LiDAR for enhanced obstacle avoidance. So apart from all these great features, we also have extended recording time, as with the Plus battery, you can push the flight up to 52 minutes. Now, as we are already getting the set of pro features with the drone and all under 250 grams, that was the most impressive marketing thing done by DJI itself and without doub,t most of the reviewers, those who used the drone specifically from TechRadar and Digital Camera World, are really very much impressed with the video quality and performance of the drone. All these are available at the starting price of $749 USD.
Problem starts when people started buying it from the retail stores and on the weighing scale the drone was showing 1 to sometimes 2 grams extra, and for that reason when we received a lot of complaints from the subscribers/users of the drone then we created the post dedicated for the weight issue that may create a problem for a general user if he is flying the drone in the restricted area or without license. So if you want to explore what could happen if you fly a slightly overweight drone like the Mini 5 Pro, you can explore our latest article
The 2g of Overweight is due to
The real culprit behind this increased weight issue is the oversized speaker module used by DJI in the drone. During the teardown of the drone, it has been revealed by a user that the DJI Mini 5 Pro’s weight issues are actually being generated due to the heavy speaker module used inside the drone. Let’s look at the teardown of the drone to understand it in a better way.
Weight-Saving Heroics: DJI Pulled Off
DJI did perfect homework in saving the weight of the drone. During the teardown, a lot of things have been reviewed. First, we will talk about how DJI, after a lot of weeks, put their effort into making this drone lightweight:
- Ultra-Light Heatsink and Thermal Management: This time, they are using a graphite sink unit. Earlier in the Mini 4 Pro, they used an aluminium heatsink unit. ~1.5g more saved by adopting the new heatsink unit.
- Flexible GPS Antenna and PCB Tweaks: They have also updated the antenna designs. Now, these times they are bendable, foil-printed GPS modules that actually replace rigid boards, saving 0.8g and improving signal in urban canyons.
- Screw and Shielding Hacks: We now have tiny titanium-coated aluminium screws, so no more steel screwsare being used in the drone. That also saves a lot of weight (down from steel) and copper foil tape instead of full metal EMI shielding—another 1g trimmed.
- Battery Consistency: The standard battery weight remains the same, which is 77.5g, so again it is not a variation or overweight standard battery issue. Even the Plus battery (pushing total AUW to 290g+) is optimised, but that’s a separate story for extended flights.
So, as you can see, DJI has made an enormous effort from their side to keep the drone under 250 grams in weight, and they have also received the CO certification of Europe, which satisfies that this drone is under 250 grams, but in reality, everyone, when testing on their weighing scal,e finds out the drone weighs a bit more.
The Actual Cause: Oversized speaker assembly
The big elephant in the room is actually the oversized speaker assembly. Now it may be sourced straight out from the remaining parts (likely a Neo or Flip leftover).. It’s a full module with plastic housing and mounting screws weighing more than 2.1 grams.
- Why is the speaker there? The heavy speaker has been used in the DJI Mini 5 Pro drone just to create some jingles, so it has no actual use, but it enhances the user experience with its alert noise. They can easily reduce the size of the next generation of mini 5 Drones by using lightweight speakers from the previous generation of drones.
So in this drone, the DJI Mini 5 Pro, everything is super perfect and very much impressive for a 250 gram drone, but unfortunately, the size/weight of the drone grows, specifically due to the large speaker module in the camera. So let’s see what happens next in the next lot—will DJI learn from its past mistakes and implement in the future tablets and pieces? Only time can tell.
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