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Phxbird57 · May 12, 2017

head wind going out. what side of external battery or batteries.

CyberNate · May 12, 2017

Phxbird57 said:
head wind going out. what side of external battery or batteries.

My dual 1500 mah batteries. Was a strong headwind today at around 10mph. My external batteries don't do well in the wind. This same setup will run for nearly 29 minutes if the wind is under 5mph. Normally I would come back in sport mode to leverage the wind and easily make it back, but without my boosters, I get some spotty signal in some sections. Better to use RTH mode if the signal is not consistent. With my boosters, I would have cruised 40mph all way home and probably had around 17% left. You gain an extra mile of distance (around 10% energy saved) in a 10 minute plus stretch.

Phxbird57 · May 12, 2017

CyberNate said:
My dual 1500 mah batteries. Was a strong headwind today at around 10mph. My external batteries don't do well in the wind. This same setup will run for nearly 29 minutes if the wind is under 5mph. Normally I would come back in sport mode to leverage the wind and easily make it back, but without my boosters, I get some spotty signal in some sections. Better to use RTH mode if the signal is not consistent. With my boosters, I would have cruised 40mph all way home and probably had around 17% left. You gain an extra mile of distance (around 10% energy saved) in a 10 minute plus stretch.

I'll have to try the sport mode. I was thinking It would use more battery. I had a 5 mph wind yesterday with my flight.

CyberNate · May 12, 2017

Phxbird57 said:
I'll have to try the sport mode. I was thinking It would use more battery. I had a 5 mph wind yesterday with my flight.

Sport mode will help, but you need to keep an eye on the tachometer/power meter. Keep the rpm/power below 70%. If there is enough tail wind, 40mph is well below 70% and near the green/blue intersection.

Phxbird57 · May 12, 2017

CyberNate said:
Sport mode will help, but you need to keep an eye on the tachometer/power meter. Keep the rpm/power below 70%. If there is enough tail wind, 40mph is well below 70% and near the green/blue intersection.

will do

in10s · May 15, 2017

mrdave543 · May 15, 2017

@JakeMaxxUAV just a stock long range flight, but got out to 18,094 ft and back with no issues. Probably could've made it out to 20,000 but wind wasn't great to push it.
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CyberNate · May 15, 2017

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Nice flight! Why did you turn around? Plenty of battery to beat it.

digdat0 · May 15, 2017

First real long range flight, gets me on the list!

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in10s · May 15, 2017

CyberNate said:
Nice flight! Why did you turn around? Plenty of battery to beat it.

Thanks Cybernate
This was my first flight with the boosted Nano Sync Antennas from Maxxuav... and my first flight with 4000 mah and Powerclip from maxxuav,be fore i just did 3 flights with 3000 mah.
So it was just a Test

... and happy didn,t turn at 50%,because after going home at 62% was back at 10%... and i didn,t know about this Thread and the actual World record from DBS Chuck..if i would have known...sure i would tried, to go this few hundert feets further otherwise ... but summer just started...and i am new in Powermods

CyberNate · May 15, 2017

in10s said:
Thanks Cybernate
This was my first flight with the boosted Nano Sync Antennas from Maxxuav... and my first flight with 4000 mah and Powerclip from maxxuav,be fore i just did 3 flights with 3000 mah.
So it was just a Test ... and happy didn,t turn at 50%,because after going home at 62% was back at 10%... and i didn,t know about this Thread and the actual World record from DBS Chuck..if i would have known...sure i would tried, to go this few hundert feets further otherwise ... but summer just started...and i am new in Powermods

Your battery mod clip is working well. I would never get such good results with mine. I always end up leaving more than 30% capacity on my external batteries due to poor contact with the battery pins. I'll have to run with my dual 4000mah batteries to beat it, which can only be done on day with no wind. Any wind at all pushes my motor rpms into the max zone. Once I get my perfect day, I will go over 40,000ft out.

Anyway, I'm sure you will also beat that record on your next attempt. You could try adding an additional battery to get a bit more flight time, or run a 5200mah battery.

in10s · May 15, 2017

CyberNate said:
Your battery mod clip is working well. I would never get such good results with mine. I always end up leaving more than 30% capacity on my external batteries due to poor contact with the battery pins. I'll have to run with my dual 4000mah batteries to beat it, which can only be done on day with no wind. Any wind at all pushes my motor rpms into the max zone. Once I get my perfect day, I will go over 40,000ft out.

Anyway, I'm sure you will also beat that record on your next attempt. You could try adding an additional battery to get a bit more flight time, or run a 5200mah battery.

You are right about the 5200 mah battery...but to be honest... did my first powermod flight like 2 weeks ago with Phantom 3,and just few with the Mavic...also modded the Phantom 4 and the Inspire.. so i got now around 30 batteries allready for all 4 Copters. As i ordered,i could not imagine that a 5200 would be possible for the Mavic...but now...yes i can.. but will first try,what i got allready.
Wich powerclip you are using?

CyberNate · May 15, 2017

in10s said:
You are right about the 5200 mah battery...but to be honest... did my first powermod flight like 2 weeks ago with Phantom 3,and just few with the Mavic...also modded the Phantom 4 and the Inspire.. so i got now around 30 batteries allready for all 4 Copters. As i ordered,i could not imagine that a 5200 would be possible for the Mavic...but now...yes i can.. but will first try,what i got allready.
Wich powerclip you are using?

I bought one from a shop in the UK. Can't remember the shop name, but the mod is identical to the one from MaxxUav with the dual xt60 plugs. Mine fits too loosely. It worked well the first couple flights, but i made the mistake of removing and replacing several times. Better to just leave it on. Tried to solder it a bit to the pins, but didn't do a good job.

CyberNate · May 15, 2017

in10s said:
You are right about the 5200 mah battery...but to be honest... did my first powermod flight like 2 weeks ago with Phantom 3,and just few with the Mavic...also modded the Phantom 4 and the Inspire.. so i got now around 30 batteries allready for all 4 Copters. As i ordered,i could not imagine that a 5200 would be possible for the Mavic...but now...yes i can.. but will first try,what i got allready.
Wich powerclip you are using?

Dual batteries work well in case you have a couple of 3000mah. The mavic will fly fine on a day with little wind. I've successfully flown with dual 4000mah multistar lipos for over 30 minutes at 30mph in testing, but haven't done a distance run. The weight makes me a little nervous. I really need perfect conditions. Once the motors are pushed beyond 70% power level, the efficient goes way down as motors get hot.

digdat0 · May 15, 2017

CyberNate said:
Dual batteries work well in case you have a couple of 3000mah. The mavic will fly fine on a day with little wind. I've successfully flown with dual 4000mah multistar lipos for over 30 minutes at 30mph in testing, but haven't done a distance run. The weight makes me a little nervous. I really need perfect conditions. Once the motors are pushed beyond 70% power level, the efficient goes way down as motors get hot.

im planning on running 2 3.0 lihv's, nice to see someone else has tried that much weight

What did your 2x4000 land at for battery after 30mins?

DomoDan · May 15, 2017

This was one of my first few flights. Out over the bay while on vacation in Greece.

26,161.4 foot flight, 10,579.6 max distance.

Weather was really calm...no wind, just a nice morning. My Mavic is completely stock, and less than one week old for that matter.

@JakeMaxxUAV

Natedoggz · May 15, 2017

I guess I'll put mine up, don't know which is better, if at all! (distance away from home) or (total ft flown)?

Both flights same setup, boasted rx/tx ant. Mod with cheap Chinese omni directional +6db antennas, dual venom 2200mah batteries!

Until I work out my own version of the NanoSync / fplrv antenna I'll stick with these cheap china or take the 1's off my router antenna.

digdat0 · May 15, 2017

Natedoggz said:
I guess I'll put mine up, don't know which is better, if at all! (distance away from home) or (total ft flown)?

Both flights same setup, boasted rx/tx ant. Mod with cheap Chinese omni directional +6db antennas, dual venom 2200mah batteries!

Until I work out my own version of the NanoSync / fplrv antenna I'll stick with these cheap china or take the 1's off my router antenna.

Where did ya get the cheap Chinese antennas?? Those are right up My ally

CyberNate · May 15, 2017

digdat0 said:
im planning on running 2 3.0 lihv's, nice to see someone else has tried that much weight What did your 2x4000 land at for battery after 30mins?

Well I'm not a good benchmark because my clip mod had poor contact. My external batteries only used 2700mah each of the 4000 available and I was down to around 11% on the Mavic battery. You guys with good external battery connections should see stellar results. That flight log was corrupted for me, so I may be a bit off on my recollection. I had covered around 40,000 ft at 50% battery and then the log was cut off. Somewhere just shy of 80,000 ft total.