Drone Battery Testing for Racing Drones: The Bench
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. Over the past decade I have run somewhere north of 40,000 discharge cycles on our test b…
Drone Battery Design for Racing Drones: An Engineer’s Guide
When a pilot hands me a new FPV airframe and says “make it faster,” the last thing I touch is the propeller. The first thing I open is the battery CAD. At…
Drone Battery Cost Optimization for Racing Drones: An (2)
Every season, a new pilot asks me the same question: “Karl, how do I get a cheaper racing drone battery without losing lap time?” After fifteen years on th…
Drone Battery Reliability for Racing Drones: How Engineers
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent more mornings than I can count on the bench with a LiPo pack that “tested fine” the nig…
Drone Battery Performance for Racing Drones: An Engineer (2)
When pilots ask me what separates a podium FPV run from a mid-pack finish, they expect me to talk about the frame, the motors, or the PID tune. As a senior…
Semi-Solid State Battery Patents and IP Landscape
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, and I spend a surprising share of my week not in the lab but reading patents. That was n…
Semi-Solid State Battery Quality Control and In-Line
Hi, I’m Karl Huang. As a senior lithium battery engineer who has commissioned semi-solid state battery pilot lines and transferred them into volume product…
Drone Battery Testing for Racing Drones: An Engineer’s
Racing drones are unforgiving customers. A cinematic survey aircraft might pull 2-3C on a calm day; an FPV racing quad on a hard punch-out can momentarily…
Drone Battery Design for Racing Drones: An Engineer’s Field
I have spent the better part of a decade on the test bench watching lithium cells either win a race or cook themselves trying. Racing drones are a differe…
Drone Battery Cost Optimization for Racing Drones: An
Racing drones live and die by two numbers: grams and ampere-hours. Over the last eight years as a lithium battery engineer building packs for FPV pilots, I…