Drone Battery Testing for Racing Drones: Abuse and
Most of the drone battery testing conversations I have with racing teams stop at three numbers: capacity, internal resistance and voltage sag. Those number…
Drone Battery Design for Inspection UAVs: Design for
I have sat through a lot of design reviews for inspection UAV power systems, and I have learned that a pack can satisfy every line of the electrical specif…
Drone Battery Cost Optimization for Delivery Drones (3)
Why the Charger, Not Just the Cell, Sets Your Delivery-Drone Battery Cost
After three years of building power systems for last-mile logistics fleets, I hav…
Drone Battery Reliability for Mapping UAVs: Lot
I am Karl Huang, a senior lithium battery engineer. Over the last eleven years I have qualified battery lots for survey and photogrammetry operators who fl…
Drone Battery Performance for Racing Drones: Keeping Every
Most pilots judge a racing drone battery by its capacity and its burst C-rate printed on the label. After more than a decade engineering competitive packs,…
Drone Battery Testing for Racing Drones: Track-Side
As a senior lithium battery engineer who has qualified packs for competitive FPV circuits, I have learned one hard truth: a pack that passes every bench sp…
Drone Battery Design for Inspection UAVs: Engineering for
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the better part of a decade designing power systems for commercial inspection UAVs &mda…
Drone Battery Cost Optimization for Delivery Drones (2)
When a logistics operator asks me to “make the drone battery cheaper,” my first instinct as a senior lithium battery engineer is to stop them. Cheaper per…
Drone Battery Reliability for Mapping UAVs: A Predictive
When I first started building drone battery packs for aerial survey operators back in 2016, I assumed a racing quad and a mapping UAV shared the same power…
Drone Battery Performance for Racing Drones: Managing the
After a decade of building and abusing high-discharge packs on the bench, I can tell you the single biggest performance lever in FPV racing is one most pil…