jamesshao8 wrote:
I am trying to realize the automatic landing on the charging deck, but the weight of the coil is a problem. It seems like the coil is reducing the flying time. How long is your flying time with and without the inductive coil?
I just did a test with a fully-charged, middle-aged battery, outdoors, with moderately aggressive flying both with the Qi charger deck and without. Flight time is reduced, but not significantly. The flight time recorded here is from power-on to steady red LED 1 (low-battery indicator):
Unladen (no decks): 6 minutes, 3 seconds
Qi deck: 5 minutes, 42 seconds
Keeping in mind this battery is more than 6 months old and has many flights on it, that's not too bad. Brand new, the advertised flight time is 7 minutes with a stock battery. I would imagine you'd only lose 15 to 20 seconds with the Qi deck mounted.
In my tests I was flying outside in 7 mph gusty wind, being moderately aggressive in my flight. Still, with the added Qi deck weight of 5g, the difference in flight time was less than 30 seconds.
YMMV 
Statistics: Posted by chad — Sun Jun 26, 2016 8:25 pm