"Attached is a charge/discharge graph a single GEB 8043125 cell.
After 95 cycles, the battery has lost 13.75% of its capacity.
This is ideal. You have to take into account the interaction between cells in a pack, and also higher discharge regime.…"
""I will test to see what happens at 50 cycles, but II would be OK with 50 cycles for a record breaking battery. I could do a long duration flight each week, for a year. That much flying is just realistic... How often do you need to break a record…"
Today we decided to finally get out of the office and go fly !I wanted to test a new pack which has been sitting on my desk for a while, a 14.8V 4s4p 24400mAh. This is a different type of lipo , with a energy density of 262 Wh/kg. Simply, this…
""We have been testing some of the new battery technology in different configurations and we think we found the optimal configuration for the Skywalker"
I never do a range check. But when I do, I forget to take it out of range check mode before takeoff.APM2.5 saved the day and loitered around home until we realized our silly mistake. This was our first flight ever with APM. Everything worked nice.…