Drone Battery Cost Optimization for Delivery Drones (7)
Most operators I meet treat a delivery drone battery as a sunk cost the moment it leaves the depot. They amortize the purchase price, add the electricity,…
Drone Battery Reliability for Mapping UAVs: Engineering (2)
When I started designing power systems for mapping UAVs a decade ago, almost every survey flight was a visual-line-of-sight hop of eight to twelve minutes….
Drone Battery Performance for Racing Drones: Taming
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have watched more race weekends turn on a connector than on a cell. Pilots obsess over the C-ratin…
Drone Battery Testing for Racing Drones: Vibration, Shock,
As a senior lithium battery engineer I test packs for a lot of airframes, but FPV racing drones are in a class of their own. Unlike mapping or inspection a…
Drone Battery Design for Inspection UAVs: Co-Designing Form
Why Inspection UAVs Force a Different Battery Design Problem
When most people picture a drone battery, they imagine a simple energy brick bolted to a frame…
Drone Battery Cost Optimization for Delivery Drones (6)
When operators ask me how to lower the cost of a delivery-drone program, the conversation almost always starts with cell price per watt-hour. After fifteen…
Drone Battery Reliability for Mapping UAVs: Designing Packs
I have spent the better part of a decade as a Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, and if there is one lesson the mapping-UAV world has hammer…
Drone Battery Performance for Racing Drones: Engineering
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I get asked the same question by almost every FPV pilot who walks into our lab: “what is the best dr…
Drone Battery Testing for Racing Drones: Qualifying New
Every season, a racing team calls me with the same hopeful question: “We found a cheaper 6S pack that claims 60C — can we just swap it in?” My answer is al…
Drone Battery Design for Inspection UAVs: Engineering fo (2)
When an inspection UAV leaves the mild climate of a survey yard and climbs to a wind-turbine nacelle at 1,500 m, or hovers beside a power-line corridor in…