LFP vs NCM Battery: Choosing Chemistry for Your Product
After more than a decade on the factory floor and in the lab at Horizon Power, I have lost count of how many times a customer has asked me the same decepti…
Lithium Battery Safety Standards
When a lithium battery leaves our production line in Shenzhen and heads to a customer in Germany or California, the chemistry inside it is only half the st…
Lithium Ion vs Lithium Polymer Battery
Every month in our Horizon Power engineering lab, an OEM customer sends the same question: “Should we use a lithium ion vs lithium polymer cell for our new…
Custom Drone Battery Packs
Every few weeks a prospective OEM sends me a CAD drawing of an airframe that simply will not accept a standard brick-shaped cell. As Karl Huang, Senior Lit…
12V vs 24V Lithium Battery
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent more than a decade specifying battery systems for drones, robotics, marine electronics,…
How to Store Drone Batteries for Winter and Long-Term Idle
Every winter, as drone-flying season in colder regions slows down, I get the same urgent questions from our B2B clients: “Karl, how should we store drone b…
Understanding Drone Battery C-Rating and Discharge (3)
Why C-Rating Is the Number You Actually Fly By
When a customer calls our engineering desk asking why their new multirotor loses altitude in the last 90 sec…
Understanding Drone Battery C-Rating and Discharge (2)
Why C-Rating Is the Number You Actually Fly By
When a customer calls our engineering desk asking why their new multirotor loses altitude in the last 90 sec…
Drone Battery Safety Certifications Every Buyer Should Know
When a sourcing manager calls me about a new UAV program, the first question is almost never about capacity or flight time. It is about paperwork. After fi…
Best Drone Battery for Cold Weather Operations (-20°C an (3)
When I first started designing lithium battery packs for commercial UAVs a decade ago, most operators assumed cold was simply a nuisance. After running win…