I say both!
I think I could store enough power to run a street for a week… FFS should cut down…some of those I don’t even have models to use em with!
There’s a model fleet badge, there a battery fleet badge?!
It’s behind the sand bucket and fire extinguisher
need a combination of the two… takes time to recharge whilst flying… then again you could just fly with another drone + battery type in your case…
I have 4 for the m3p… three in the charger, one in the drone…
5 for the Avata … one in the drone… 4 on the charger rack…
4 for the DJI FPV … one in the drone… 3 on the charger rack…
7x 1s + 4x 2s for a mobula 7
2x 3s for a betafpv HX115 HD
and I only dabble in the hobby 
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you must have one arm longer than the other lugging all that around including the extinguisher…
or both arms at knee level ??
Haha obviously don’t bring a fraction with me when flying. The portable power charging is quite light. I am a lighter packer these days than I used to be with my lead acid beast
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I have never tried FPV do the drones eat batteries ?
You get around 5 - 7 mins if you flying slowly, less if pushing, more is really just a cruise. You can get 15-20 mins with a very efficient LR build (but where the fun in that). A battery that’s not doing well and you very heavy on the throttle can be 2-3 mins!
They cost around 20-25% a DJI battery does for the same kind if power. Planes tend to be a lot more efficient (loads of time!) All depends on how heavy the quad is, and how hard you pushing it really!
I did not realise but the avata (and maybe other DJI drones) are NOT Li-po… and are not the same as what one would fly with a home built quad.
they are LiNiMnCoO2…
I only figured out the difference when discharging them
they discharge down to a lower voltage per cell (from memory it’s 3.3v per cell)
the recommendation is not to take them below 3v
hence they are likely to output more power per volume or weight package than a standard lipo that one would use in a home built FPV drone
Yeah that’s why the avata has performance issues. The FPV is lipo, the avata lion. You can fly longer with lion for same.voltagr and mah (though the fpv has more mah so longer flight times)
Lion won’t give you the punch that lipo does. Think mini 2 is lipo and mini was lion.
All those in my photo are.lipo bar the avata and the spare for my tx16s.
If you LR use lion
ahh! thanks … the “C” rating with lipo is much higher…
is that maybe why it has this yawl spin issue… not able to draw enough current maybe and goes into a wobbly?
Exactly this a lipo can give its power a lot quicker. So when a quad gets in trouble if on lion it can’t draw as much power to rover which ever motor needs it…plus the avata vented props so different physics at play. Different tool for different jobs.
I do wanna play with iNav on a quad tbh. Maybe rebuild the 7 inch and get some lions as well… I don’t have enuf batteries as it is haha
as you said in the title… you can never have enough batteries
(I’ve been through a phase of collecting lathe chucks!!! don’t go there! but if you are looking for one … I’m Ur man)
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