H Batteries at Crutchfield

[PatR]

It appears Crutchfield is having a sale on Yuneec Typhoon H batteries. Normally $139.99 now at $89.99.

Yuneec 5400mAh Battery

 

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It appears Crutchfield is having a sale on Yuneec Typhoon H batteries. Normally $139.99 now at $89.99.

Yuneec 5400mAh Battery

They state: "flying time with Typhoon H is approximately 25 minutes per battery". Fake information, why not press charge on Crutchfield"?

 

[PatR]

Sellers use manufacturer’s advertising reference material, not their own. File charges if you want but I’ve found Crutchfield to be a pretty darn good place to buy stuff with all aspects of a sale, through shipping, getting much better than average attention.

As for flight time, I’ve found there are a lot of people out there that believe “flight time” numbers from any multirotor manufacturer. For those in that group a serious review of their gullibility is warranted.

 

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Sellers use manufacturer’s advertising reference material, not their own. File charges if you want but I’ve found Crutchfield to be a pretty darn good place to buy stuff with all aspects of a sale, through shipping, getting much better than average attention.

As for flight time, I’ve found there are a lot of people out there that believe “flight time” numbers from any multirotor manufacturer. For those in that group a serious review of their gullibility is warranted.

Sure PatR but you must admitt that even Crutchfield knows that 25min isn't true and should put a note about that! Especially for newbies to "H" and to this forum!

 

[biltno]

They run about $60-$69 on eBay thru reputable US sellers

 

[PatR]

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From where I sit truth in advertising should start with the manufacturers. I don’t believe one class of consumer deserves to be awarded “protected species” status over all the others. If warehouse sellers dealing with a wide product diversity were required to vet the advertising of manufacturers of all types of products they would have to raise prices considerably to offset the time lost in the process and hiring more people to get that job done.

Few people look at energy consumptions estimates on electrical appliances and mileage estimates for cars and believe they will achieve them with any level of accuracy. For some reason people new to multirotors want to believe everything the read or hear from the manufacturers, nor do they seem to understand that using terminology like “up to” in flight time advertising is an open door for over statement. They also tend to fail in performing any serious research prior to making a purchase. It would be better if manufacturers added “your flight time will probably be less” after their “up to” statement but that would not help sales volume, which is the only thing they care about. We’re dealing with manufacturers from a region that lacks honesty as a matter of historical culture. Nothing in their culture or business laws is present to force truth in advertising or quality standards. They haven’t changed in a thousand years so we’ve had plenty of time to learn their ways. In truth, manufacturers of all consumer products lie, either directly or through omission, to boost their sales. It’s just a question of how much.

It does not require much effort for newbies to do a little research to learn that people with more experience see a manufacturer flight time statement and immediately cut that time in half for a more realistic useful time value. So manufacturers should be made responsible to provide more truthful advertising in order for big box and other stores to provide more accurate advertising. It would not hurt if buyers were a little smarter and less impulsive. Buyers being a little more intelligent would do more to improve products and advertising faster than anything else.

 

[h1pst3r88]

This is the same as watts per channel in a 5.1 amp. Manufactures send a sine wave driving one speaker and then state the wattage based on that.

Nothing could be farther from real world use but since all manufacturers do the same thing, and legally it is a measure of wattage, it's only the consumer who realizes that their receiver isn't as powerful as they thought.

Flight times calculated based on battery amps and capacity are the same thing. Testing while hovering stable in a windless lab in the lab is a far cry from testing in the real world.

Adjust to the disparity, and the world makes sense again.

 

[AH-1G]

Sure PatR but you must admitt that even Crutchfield knows that 25min isn't true and should put a note about that! Especially for newbies to "H" and to this forum!

 

[h1pst3r88]

Is the PowerExtra 6300mAh a better deal at $74 shipped (and a LiPo bag) versus the ebay seller for the OEM Yuneec 5400mAh ($67 shipped) that Biltno posted?

 

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AH-1G, genious contribution to this forum. Thanx

 

[rdonson]

Sure PatR but you must admitt that even Crutchfield knows that 25min isn't true and should put a note about that! Especially for newbies to "H" and to this forum!

Anyone who believes the 25 min claim is a person too lazy to spend the short amount of time to check that claim. Especially newbies to this forum. You only need to use the search facility.

 

[PatR]

I only posted a link to the ad. I didn’t write it or develop the price structure...