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by bilbo0s
2427 days ago
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Also, I imagine flight characteristics will change dramatically with a 100g battery. Heavier payload, same motors, doesn't bode well. May as well get a real drone rather than use the 100g battery. But for toy drones, the 50g battery is fine. Especially since that pack lets you carry 3 of them. Plus I'm sure the next generation will be lighter still with still greater flight time. And the generation after that. Etc. Future seems pretty bright for these "family pictures" type drones. But they aren't competitive with the big boys for certain use cases right now. |
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Battery technology is maxed out currently, plastics and composites aren’t going to change much...
Not much weight shedding to be done here my bet is that they’ll add more collision sensors as they become cheaper but not much else they can do.
They shouldn’t add any weight and you’ll offset their weight with the removal of the material from the chassis.
As for the flight characteristics I’m pretty sure they did everything with the heavier battery you go from 18W to 8W in exchange for losing 50g which is only 16% reduction in weight form 299 to 249.
If anything the loophole battery would perform considerably worse given the power output of the cell compared to the full one.
It also looks like the S mode isn’t available for the smaller battery I have a feeling that once reviews will start popping out the FAA approved config will be called gimp mode.