Battery Energy: mAh, Volts, Watt-hours & the Landing Reserve
This lesson is part of the course
In this lesson
You turn the capacity and cell count on fictional battery labels into pack voltage and watt-hours, keep the landing reserve from the operations manual aside and work out how many packs a mapping mission needs.
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Lessons in this course
- Battery Energy: mAh, Volts, Watt-hours & the Landing Reserve Locked
- Flight Time from Power Draw & the Cost of Payload Locked
- Wind: Ground Speed Out & Back and the Return Reserve Locked
- Range Under a Battery Budget & the Visual-Range Limit Locked
- Ground Sampling Distance: Centimetres per Pixel & the Right Altitude Locked
- Mapping Grid: Overlap, Line Spacing, Photo Interval & Photo Count Locked
- Mission Time: Flight Lines, Turns & Battery Swaps Locked
- Pre-Flight Sheet: A Limits Panel with Red–Amber–Green Flags Locked