Gryf
Active member
Hi, all.
A while back I bought an Inductrix FPV with the intent of learning FPV. Had a great time... and using 220 mAH batteries, I was getting good, solid 4-minute flights. Then I accidentally damaged a couple of the motors, and replaced all four with Special Sauce motors from the Whoop store at Flite Fest, along with a set of their props. Flights were fine, but battery life went way down, like only a minute or two at best. I figured that the new motors were dragging the batteries down, and was considering swapping the battery lead out for a heavier one, also from Tiny Whoop.
Then I lost the quad. I assume it's here at home somewhere, but I sure can't find it.
So, back to square one, this time with a standard Inductrix, fitted with a Hyperion camera/VTX, soldered into the flight controller per Tiny Whoop's instructions on YouTube. Flies great, with good video to my goggles, but even with the stock Inductrix motors/props, my flight times are still really short. Meaning, I headed out to the back yard yesterday with a pocketful of freshly charged batteries and flew through all of them. Flights ranged from about 3.5 minutes down to only a few seconds. :-(
So do these little batteries just lose their stuff after a few flights? I charge them with an E-Flite Celectra 4-port charger... would I be better off with a parallel board and the standard charger I use with my larger multi-cell packs?
Thanks for any advice!
Gryf
A while back I bought an Inductrix FPV with the intent of learning FPV. Had a great time... and using 220 mAH batteries, I was getting good, solid 4-minute flights. Then I accidentally damaged a couple of the motors, and replaced all four with Special Sauce motors from the Whoop store at Flite Fest, along with a set of their props. Flights were fine, but battery life went way down, like only a minute or two at best. I figured that the new motors were dragging the batteries down, and was considering swapping the battery lead out for a heavier one, also from Tiny Whoop.
Then I lost the quad. I assume it's here at home somewhere, but I sure can't find it.
So, back to square one, this time with a standard Inductrix, fitted with a Hyperion camera/VTX, soldered into the flight controller per Tiny Whoop's instructions on YouTube. Flies great, with good video to my goggles, but even with the stock Inductrix motors/props, my flight times are still really short. Meaning, I headed out to the back yard yesterday with a pocketful of freshly charged batteries and flew through all of them. Flights ranged from about 3.5 minutes down to only a few seconds. :-(
So do these little batteries just lose their stuff after a few flights? I charge them with an E-Flite Celectra 4-port charger... would I be better off with a parallel board and the standard charger I use with my larger multi-cell packs?
Thanks for any advice!
Gryf