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…
Drone Battery Cost Optimization for Delivery Drones (5)
Why the Real Unit of Battery Cost Is the Flight, Not the Pack
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last eight years watc…
Drone Battery Reliability for Mapping UAVs: Engineering for
When operators ask me how to make a drone battery last through a mapping season, they almost always expect a conversation about cycle life. In my fifteen y…
Drone Battery Performance for Racing Drones: Charge
Why Charge-Termination Voltage Is the Biggest Untapped Performance Lever
When pilots talk about drone battery performance for racing drones, the conversati…
Drone Battery Testing for Racing Drones: An Accelerated
Why Racing Drone Batteries Age Differently Than the Datasheet Implies
When a pilot hands me a fresh set of racing packs and asks how many race weekends the…
Drone Battery Design for Inspection UAVs: Building
I have spent the better part of a decade on the test bench with lithium-ion packs, and if there is one lesson inspection-UAV programs keep teaching me, it…