Battery Endurance Test
03-01-2008, 08:49 PM
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Battery Endurance Test
Place : Mossy Bike Path NSW Australia
Terrain : 80% Concrete 20% tall grass
Battery : RC Revolution 3300mah 7.2V
Vehicle : HBX Bonzer with Locked Rear Diff and an LRP Ai Runner PLUS reverse ESC with Stock 550 Size Fan Cooled Battery
Summary of Test
The Moss Vale Bike Path runs along Suttor Road for 3k's With my Real Scale Car I measured Street poles at 1k intervals So I would know where the 1 k intervals were..
Since the Bonzer is the most power hungry RC I have and is the only shaft drive I have working I decided that it would make the perfect test vehicle as it would aggressively chew the Batts..
So I started the Test at the Beginning of the Track.. and walked behind the Bonzer at a fairly rapid pace.. I would say Jogging speed but not flat out.. I did intermittently Floor it every now and then but the Bonzer was kept in constant Motion....
So I hit the 1k point and the Bonzer started to show signs of Slowing down, so I turned it around and headed back, It Made it all the way Back to the Beginning of the Bike Path where the Batt had levelled out at 7.2V so it was no longer fast but not dead.. So I drove the Bonzer 300 metres on Grass back to my House... the Last part really loaded up the Motor and Dragged current out of the Battery but to my Suprise.. the Bonzer made it all the way Back Home and only got the Battery Shudders when it had reached the bottom of my Drive way...
So 2300metres in Total Distance was achieved..
Being a 1:10th Car I would have to times that result by 10 to get the scale distance...
So
2300 metres = 2.3 Kilometres and multiplying that by 10 = 23Kilometres...
So total distance travelled under 1 3300mah Battery was 23 Kilometres which is pretty impressive!
Terrain : 80% Concrete 20% tall grass
Battery : RC Revolution 3300mah 7.2V
Vehicle : HBX Bonzer with Locked Rear Diff and an LRP Ai Runner PLUS reverse ESC with Stock 550 Size Fan Cooled Battery
Summary of Test
The Moss Vale Bike Path runs along Suttor Road for 3k's With my Real Scale Car I measured Street poles at 1k intervals So I would know where the 1 k intervals were..
Since the Bonzer is the most power hungry RC I have and is the only shaft drive I have working I decided that it would make the perfect test vehicle as it would aggressively chew the Batts..
So I started the Test at the Beginning of the Track.. and walked behind the Bonzer at a fairly rapid pace.. I would say Jogging speed but not flat out.. I did intermittently Floor it every now and then but the Bonzer was kept in constant Motion....
So I hit the 1k point and the Bonzer started to show signs of Slowing down, so I turned it around and headed back, It Made it all the way Back to the Beginning of the Bike Path where the Batt had levelled out at 7.2V so it was no longer fast but not dead.. So I drove the Bonzer 300 metres on Grass back to my House... the Last part really loaded up the Motor and Dragged current out of the Battery but to my Suprise.. the Bonzer made it all the way Back Home and only got the Battery Shudders when it had reached the bottom of my Drive way...
So 2300metres in Total Distance was achieved..
Being a 1:10th Car I would have to times that result by 10 to get the scale distance...
So
2300 metres = 2.3 Kilometres and multiplying that by 10 = 23Kilometres...
So total distance travelled under 1 3300mah Battery was 23 Kilometres which is pretty impressive!
03-01-2008, 10:43 PM
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RE: Battery Endurance Test
cool, now all you have to do is test other batteries and you can tell us which will give us the best runtimes! that would actually be really helpful, come to think of it... [sm=regular_smile.gif]
