This is just a teaser, if you will. Since @Bartman put me up to this, I have been working with a very sharp E.E. to design a protection circuit with minimal forward V. drop should a cell fail in a two-battery, parallel configuration.
More to come!
@Motopreserve AFAICT a "droney" is when the drone starts filming you dead center and head on, and then slowly backs away for that "dramatic, fade to black" so to speak.
Well @dazzab let me make one more point and then I'll drop it. I don't see myself (or anyone else for that matter) able to plug in say, four smart batteries into my iCharger and doing them all in parallel. Heck, I've go the 406 Duo so I could hook up four (or six) or whatever EACH to my TWO...
Mt reply to @econfly and @dazzab is this: What about the huge group of builders and hobbyists out there that would like to both build their own AND own somthing like the Solo?
With all due respect you guys are being pretty casual about the fact that these so-called "smart batteries" render your...
After doing some reading, it would appear a standard diode may not be the route to go because of the "forward voltage drop." Further investigation reveals that even a Schottky diode, although better than a standard diode, may subject the power system to an unacceptable voltage drop. However...
Bart, back in the 80's I did time in Silicon Valley as an Engineering Liaison between my company's engineering group and it's clients nationwide. We built silicon microstructures (accelerometers, pressure sensors, etc.) and I believe were the first to take micromachined devices (accelerometers)...
Thanks to both @Bartman and @Pumpkinguy for your replies. Bart, in all honesty it never occurred to me that one battery failure in a two-battery, parallel arrangement could take out the good battery as well thus crashing the vehicle. My whole point to building my F550 this way was supposed...
Hey @Bartman and everyone else. Yeah, just saw both the 3DR videos (one nothing but magic fudge meant for the younger, gullible types, and the more "technical" one posted by Bart). Wow! Can't seem to find real detailed information on the 3DR site in fact, it seems to be very slow and almost...