Drone Battery Cost Optimization for Delivery Drones (4)
As Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last decade designing the drone battery packs that keep delivery fleets i…
Drone Battery Reliability for Mapping UAVs: Engineering
Over the last three seasons flying mapping UAVs across utility-corridor, forestry, and precision-agriculture survey contracts, I have learned one uncomfort…
Drone Battery Performance for Racing Drones: Building the
As a senior lithium battery engineer who has spent more race seasons than I care to count strapping packs onto FPV frames, I have learned one humbling trut…
Drone Battery Testing for Racing Drones: Replaying the Real
Why a Steady-State C-Rating Lies for Racing Drones
My name is Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, and I have run several thousand…
Drone Battery Design for Inspection UAVs: Power Quality, DC
After eleven years of designing lithium battery packs for industrial UAVs, the most frequently misdiagnosed problem I get called in to fix is not a pack th…
Drone Battery Cost Optimization for Delivery Drones: Fleet
When operators ask me how to lower the cost of a delivery drone battery, they usually expect a chemistry answer — switch to LFP, or wait for semi-solid. Af…
Drone Battery Reliability for Mapping UAVs: Building a
As a senior lithium battery engineer at Horizon Power, I have spent the last six years watching mapping UAV fleets — survey quadcopters, fixed-wing photogr…
Drone Battery Performance for Racing Drones: Cell Matching
When a customer asks me to squeeze another half-second out of a lap, the conversation almost never starts with the pack. It starts with the cells. After fi…
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…