ORIGINAL: stockdaddy
At 1C, you are charging 3 packs per hour and I don't fly more than once every 15 mins.
I consider it a good day at the field when I fly a solid 110 minutes of time in the air.
I have a 12v CAR battery in one of the Goldber E lugable cases.
I can charge four packs at the same time. The plane takes two per flight, so with three or four packs the electrics can just barely keep up with me.
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ORIGINAL: stockdaddy
In reality, it's been proven you can achieve 500 cycles per battery even charging at 3c on some of the newer packs.
Proven where?
Everyone advocates against this just to achive 150 cycles.
ORIGINAL: stockdaddy
That would take your cost for each flight down to 33c a flight.
Only for the SMALL electrics.
There-in is the problem. Move up to .40's and larger and things get far more problematic.