Battery

Alex Lee November 4, 2012 at 7:11am

In my opinion and what I've done. I feel the higher C rating batteries do better in multi copters..

My experience is around my Hexa. I used the "large" motors from 3dr with a 25-50 Turnigy Nano 6k and 25 amp esc's..

After 20 or so filghts the batteries began puffing a bit..

I switched to 45-90c Turnigy Nano 5k's and they have been fine for many flights..

I feel using the lower C rating and more motors causes the battery to drain faster than intended. as more motors is higher Amps load.

The battery with the higher C will be expecting you to put a higher load on it and handle accordingly..

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Jani Hirvinen November 4, 2012 at 12:57am

Actually I would stay as far as possible from Turnigy batteries. Their quality is going up and down. In last 12 months we blew 7 big packs without any reason and after that we stopped to use them. Try to get something better than those. GE, Hyperion, Tigers etc are better choices than Turnigy.

Will Snodgrass November 3, 2012 at 8:05pm

i usethese and they are more then sufficient. I have way more power then i need. (that's from the US warehouse too!)

Try these motors, they work great with 10 props. Try these ESC's too. After trying some cheaper ESC's, I tried these and they are sooooo nice! Throw that on aturnigy HAL frame and you will have a sweet, rugged setup that will survive crashes better then any other frame Ive used, And youll neverneed mo re then 50% throttle (unless you want to lose your quad!)

Randy Brazeau November 3, 2012 at 2:04pm

I would also consider the weight.
Weight of the copter and weight of the battery.
Somewhere there is a trade-off. Increasing the size of the battery will not significantly increase the amount of flight time.
I have two quads and use 5000mah batteries for now but I'm just learning how to fly.
Randy