How To choose Best Drone Battery
May 23rd 2017
About Drone sizes
As we know, there are various types of drone, such as Tricopter, drone, Hexecopter, Octocopter, Y6, X8 etc. Before you purchase the best drone battery, you should know more details about it. Base on the needs of the applications, we can divide the drone into 7 types as below: Aerial cinematography: Big enough to lift a specific camera with tall landing gear.Such as DJI phantom 2/3/4, S1000 etc. Sport & Social: Super light-weight and extremely stiff for crisp and responsive control.Such as QAV 400/500,FLIP FPV,TBS Discovery etc. Sport FPV: Lots of mounting surfaces for extra electronics and action cameras.Such as Flip sport /DJI F450. Mini drone: Very small and virtually indestructible.Such as Hubsan X4 ,Eachine H8 Mini ,syma x11 etc. FPV drone: Virtually indestructible with space to mount electronics and sometimes an action camera.Such as QAV250,250mm quad etc. More professional uses such as package delivery, agriculture. For research or personal robotics development. Choose different drone lipo battery is depend on the size of your drone, not a battery which is not possible to meet all of your requirements. Therefore we search huge volumes of information via internet and give a range match chart for you.
Drone battery connectors
There are many common connectors include Deans, XT60, EC3 and JST etc. What is the performance impact of these connectors? Connectors you are using will also be able to handle the current. Below is connector current ratings:
JST connector - up to 5A
XT60 connectors - up to 60 Amps
Deans - up to 60 Amps
EC3 connector - up to 60 Amps
EC5 connector - up to 120 Amps
About high voltage battery
What's the high voltage battery? The lithium ion electrode potential is about 3v, lithium battery voltage will change with different materials. After the optimization of material and craft, lithium polymer battery cut-off voltage can be improved up to 4.5v. The high voltage lipo battery is meaning 4.35v per cell.There are 3 advantages of HV battery
More power more energy More high C charge More Flight timesAbout smart battery
What is smart battery? A smart battery is a rechargeable battery pack equipped with with a built-in battery management system. The smart battery can internally measure voltage and current, and deduce charge level and SoH (State of Health) parameters, indicating the state of the cells, calculated and predicted information to its SMBus Host under software control. Smart batteries have the following advantages: Provides the user with accurate state of charge information along with an accurate prediction of the remaining operating time; Auto-balance inside when the voltage is different between the cells; Provides state-of-charge and full charge capacity; Reflects capacity estimations; records battery history; including cycle count, usage pattern, maintenance requirements, max error, etc; Auto discharge in high temperature, under static or storage stateand; Auto alarm fuction; Configures charger to the correct algorithm; Reminds user of periodic service; Protects battery from unauthorized use; Prevent accidental system cut-off;Best drone battery Guide
Top 5 best drone batteries for FPV
All above drone batteries are highly recommended by experienced pilots, and they are most popular batteries in the FPV drone market, we can often see these battery brands in the FPV events.
Top 5 best drone batteries for UAV
All above brands of these battery are compatible with UAV, drone including FPV, multirotor like DJI S800 / s900 / S1000 / OnyxStar FOX-C8-HD / Gryphon X8 and other multicopter etc. It need most of times for hover in the skly to shoot videos for AP drone, therefore the battery c rate is not need too hight to much explosive power.
Top 5 best drone battery balance chargers
The best drone battery should be compatible with a good charger. We should consider these factors cell count it can support, charge current rate, charge power, discharge rate and price etc, when looking for the best battery chargers. Some chargers can provide two or more complete charging circuits, it can charge faster more than single charger solutions, such as above Venom battery.