ORIGINAL: cmoulder

Matt,

The electric flights are about 6 minutes, plenty for the intermediate sequence and then a couple more minutes to repeat some parts. It isn't very demanding, of course, but I am flying it pretty big.

My typical flights with the gasser are about 9 to 10 minutes, so the difference in battery usage is larger because of that. I typically used about 150-200mAh per flight with the Focus II. That's for Rx and Ignition, as you mentioned.

When I went out and flew last Thursday I purposely did not recharge the Rx LiPo's for the Sickle, which means that they now have 9 flights on them without recharging. I did, however, keep a very close eye on them to make sure there was no chance of over-discharging, and the catastrophic results that could follow!

I have not had a chance yet to recharge them on the Cellpro 10s to see how much charge they take. But I was VERY surprised last time to see a recharge value of only 152 mAh for 6 flights. And very interested to see what I get this time, whether the previous number was a fluke.

However, I did just check the present voltages of the two 350 mAh packs, and after 9 flights one of them is reading 7.67 volts (7.35 with a 500mAh load, 7.00 with a 1amp load) and the other is 7.96 volts (7.68 with a 500mAh load, 7.28 with a 1amp load), so these Rx batteries could have handled several more flights.