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Battery extremely warm after short duration flight

Posted by Sean Tierney on June 17, 2013 at 3:30pm

I spent some time flying my HEX in our offices today to test a new camera gimbal, and after about a 2 minute flight I landed to check the footage. When I went to disconnect the battery, both the battery and the leads from the battery were really warm.

I am wondering if the S3 20c battery is not enough to carry the weight? It is the Arducopter HEX frame with a custom set of carbon fiber legs and skids and a custom (mostly) carbon fiber gimbal. I also have an onboard video TX and telemetry and a smaller S3 battery to power the video system.

If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

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Sean Tierney June 17, 2013 at 5:49pm

Awesome, good to know...thank you.
Sean Tierney June 17, 2013 at 4:30pm

Would running 2 of the batteries in parallel help me any?
Sean Tierney June 17, 2013 at 3:59pm

The battery is 2200 mah and I am running 20 amp esc's.

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