Hi, is there any "evidence" of a H oem battery that have juice enough for let's say 25 to 30min flight time with video running?
Longer flight time?
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I am currently waiting for the weather to get better so I can test a few new ones I got. They will give better than the stock ones, just not sure how much yet. A lot of factors can come into play though. If the H needs to keep adjusting for wind and stability. Is the GPS on. Am I running at a fast rate of speed. Outside temp. Am I climbing up and down a lot. There are so many things that can draw on the battery, so to try and find a medium to use as a bench mark is kinda tough.
Sure Murray Martz, ofcourse its a matter of similar flying conditions, No matter what they are. Do you have batteries with more juice or not? That was my Q.
Thanc McButler...what does 'C' mean? Do I have to buy a new charger? I just have the standard version. Any new charger you can recommend?
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No you don't need a new charger. There are many decent brands. I like iCharger; some others are rebranded iChargers.
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For charging it will work just fine.
As for the C rating, those that fly fast and hard would benefit from a higher C rating but the battery would weigh a little more.
As for the C rating, those that fly fast and hard would benefit from a higher C rating but the battery would weigh a little more.
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That's a bogus spec that creates unrealistic expectations. No drone gets the "rated" time as it's like MPG in a car and varies with driver and conditions. The H is solid safe for your first ten to 12 minutes but after that you need to be aware how fast you can go from ok to LVC warnings. Often times those warnings come when you "push" your flight towards the end like trying to full power up. This is common with all drones on their last 1/3rd of the battery cycle and where most flight failures and crashes happen. If you stop demanding full power, often times the warning backs off and you may even see your voltage go back up a bit if you just hover. My typical mission is first 5 mins getting set and moving towards my subject and recording. The next five minutes is the real meat time for all the maneuvers and height or fast passes while filming. The last five are back to slower flight or descent and getting back closer to myself to prepare for LVC warnings and landing. I finally over flew one of my OEM in a very ambitious flight up and over a mountain that exceeded my normal time and she was flashing hard during her landing and the battery was really hot and did puff up a bit. It's now a test or shot mission back up battery but it does have 100s of flights on it and has been working well for a year plus.
Learn it's "deficiencies" which according to this forum is battery time because this is what really happens despite the rosy spec pushed out by all drone manufacturers that is never correct. Spend less time trying to chase this dragon and just own decent confirmed working batteries for your H. Invest in a good balancing charger so you can discharge bad batteries or put good ones in storage and learn how to maintain them so you can get the maximum life from them.
One last thing often ignored in these "why won't it fly longer" threads is how much heat builds up during long flight at hi rev. Personally, I'm glad that it's shorter as here in the desert the H gets crazy hot during flight and that for sure can cause major problems once critical internal temperatures are exceeded.
Safe flying.
Wise words, Craig... thank you.
I am not at all an experienced RC or drone pilot (my H is the first motorised one, many years back I had an RC sailplane for two seasons... after that it was damaged beyond repair), just someone with thorough farmers intelligence. I fly in the same 'conservative' energy magagement way ever since I own the H.
Cheers!
I am not at all an experienced RC or drone pilot (my H is the first motorised one, many years back I had an RC sailplane for two seasons... after that it was damaged beyond repair), just someone with thorough farmers intelligence. I fly in the same 'conservative' energy magagement way ever since I own the H.
Cheers!
The ones I have are 6300mAh 93.24Wh Cameron Sino. Flight time will be longer. Again, until I get some better weather, I won't know how much longer. I will be posting results when I can.
I plan on testing each battery differently. One will be hard flown, the second will be soft. It will need to be over two days as I am also going to do flight with no video on the first, then the second with video. I'm going to time each, and not even try to bring it back. I will fly to max out the battery then let it land.
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I think you'll find the flight time will be the same. Those of us that have been using 6300ma batteries along side the factory batteries already know this.
... Because the factory batteries are, in fact, around 6300 mAh... this is only fully realized by using the charge adapter and a hobby charger.
PatR
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I didn't want to say that, it always starts another long discussion about battery label data. But since you did, it seems to be the factory batteries are 6300ma that are incorrectly labeled.
It's my opinion that the factory battery discrepancy is deliberate on Yuneec's part. I think that the factory charger undercharges the battery in order to protect it from the average consumer that will keep their lipos fully charged, thus destroying them. Interesting solution as I'm sure they're aware of the futility of trying to educate the non-technical person on lipo battery considerations...
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