Ok so with your batteries. What is the best flight time you are getting? Really want to get a 30k ft trip in one way. But will be happy with 20k which is more reasonable. I might can reach that with stock but nice to know I'm not under pressure because of battery. Also I am
Heres the best way ive found to mount mine, velcro on the VPS will get you started, but I still wanted some security to make sure the mammoth doesn't come loose during flight. I tried tapes to strap it under the legs but it still didn't balance it right, so I went with an old trick using a zip tie strap and two screws. With the combo of that in the Velcro on the VPS(VPS shut off in app of course)it's rocksolid now. Here's some pics
Tom Parker at Horizon Midwest has generously built (on his own dime)and sent me a custom pair of 5200 mAh split HV battery to test and post the result on Phantom Pilots, if the results produced positive flight times he's going to make them available to the general public. They should be in the mail tomorrow and I should have decent test weather Saturday so keep posted.
I do mod my own batteries with XT 60s which is all you really need to run a solo external battery! That one in the picture was modded by Horizon and has a balance plug added because it goes with the V3 mod.(which doesn't work well) so you don't need the battery to have the balance plug just charge the external batteries on a battery charger that is LI HV capable.
Yeah he did, Fanti said he would be happy to oblige, and shared his set up for that long flight in post #43
Yeah Tony, you talk it over with"The Pros" you know, This stuff isn't rocket science, nothing to it but to do it! And I've already showed you enough pics for the "how to"
That was my initial test with that battery it was 12 o'clock at night and windy so I couldnt do a real distance run, so I went out 3 miles and back a few times. Total was 73,513 feet which is about 14 miles travel. It has way more potential on a straight flight it's not so windy and it's more than 37°
Have you not been following my other post Tony? I think when it's all said and done the summer the standard I've only been flying for two weeks is going to have a bigger distance record than my P3 A/P that I've been distance running for a half a year. It's lighter so it seems to ring more out of the battery distance wise
Never saw it. This is incredible. I'm just thinking even with the battery mod. How can your wifi go so far. I will look for other thread.
Check out post# 20 in this thread!
