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…
Drone Battery Reliability for Racing Drones: What Field
In fifteen years of building drone lithium battery packs for everyone from agricultural survey operators to cinematic crews, the FPV racing community is th…
Drone Battery Performance for Racing Drones: What Engineers
Every season on the racing circuit I get the same question from pilots: “Karl, which drone battery should I run?” I’m Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery En…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Robotics: An
Why Robotics Presents a Different Cost Equation
Robotics buyers almost always benchmark a new pack against the price of laptop or e-bike cells they can buy…
Battery Solution Reliability for Robotics: An Engineer’s
Reliability is the only specification that matters after the purchase order is signed. I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, a…