IF you manage to add one more std battery to the "H", has someone calculated (guessed) how much flight time you'll add taking into consideration the increased weight of the battery. Will the props trust be enough to handle the modification?
Hi Bob, thanx, you are right and your answer was expected... What to do when I need/want a drone with 30 minutes effective flight time w/o paying a fortune? Buy a Tornado 920?The H can handle quite a bit of weight. There is a video Ming did last year of the H carrying 2 bottles of water below it. The problem become HEAT. Using a higher motor RPM to compensate for the weight is going to add more heat generation on the ESC, the motors and the battery. The battery will heat up faster and possibly more due to the higher amperage draw for a more continuous time. There are some guys that have use a third party battery tray along with bigger batteries and have gotten better flight times. A second battery, while doable, would not be advisable.
FlushVision, I don't doubt you'll get 16 to 18 minutes,,,, I have three batteries charged about 4 times each and I never fly aggressivly. BUT more than 12-13 minutes before 1st warning has never happend to me! ... I use the std charger. What's wrong? Me or the "H"? I have the video recording all the time.I appreciate that some people would like extended flight times, and that's fair enough. For the sort of flying I do, though, the 16 to 18 minutes I get to first warning is plenty sufficient for me...indeed, more often than not I'm landed by 14 minutes and have usually obtained most of the important footage and photographs that I've set out to get after only using just one battery. A second battery is usually a 'tidying up' flight...although some commercial jobs can be a little more involved so I always take with me enough batteries that I think I will need +1.
What I'm saying is that, for me, I'd rather have two flights of 14 minutes each with a break in between rather than one of 28 minutes.
As PatR says: probably nothing wrong.FlushVision, I don't doubt you'll get 16 to 18 minutes,,,, I have three batteries charged about 4 times each and I never fly aggressivly. BUT more than 12-13 minutes before 1st warning has never happend to me! ... I use the std charger. What's wrong? Me or the "H"? I have the video recording all the time.