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Power Consumption

basitmustafa

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I'll do some tests myself when I get some time (and ran some searches but couldn't find anything) but does anyone have any idea if there is a decrease in power draw when obstacle avoidance is disabled and/or GPS is disabled?

I'm doing a lot of flying on pretty accessible, private land and going for optimal distance with an amp'ed antenna set up and battery is really the limiting factor at this point. Even an extra minute would appreciated, and if one could minimize the user of GPU cores used for the vision system and GPS in theory (big assumption here that disabling them would reduce their power draw).
 
I would think it's a miniscule savings that wouldn't factor in to flight time in a significant way.

In the case of GPS, you could very well use more battery without it, trying to keep the drone under control if it's drifting around.
 
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