Greetings everyone,
New to this Forum and newish to drone tech.
To get straight to the point, I am a drone operator and responsible for our drone program at my fire department. This is fairly a new program and I've been trying to find a balance in maintaining our batteries and being mission ready. We fly the Matrice 30T.
The problem I'm seeing is the research I've done is that you shouldn't keep your batteries charged at 100% all the time. Our charging dock has the option to maintain the batteries at 50% which is the default "storage" mode. Saying that when we get deployed, the batteries are only half charged giving us half the flight time.
I'm curious to see how other agencies or drone hobbyist, manage this dilemma? Is it as simple as just maintain them at 100% all the time and replace the batteries more frequently?
Appreciate it!
New to this Forum and newish to drone tech.
To get straight to the point, I am a drone operator and responsible for our drone program at my fire department. This is fairly a new program and I've been trying to find a balance in maintaining our batteries and being mission ready. We fly the Matrice 30T.
The problem I'm seeing is the research I've done is that you shouldn't keep your batteries charged at 100% all the time. Our charging dock has the option to maintain the batteries at 50% which is the default "storage" mode. Saying that when we get deployed, the batteries are only half charged giving us half the flight time.
I'm curious to see how other agencies or drone hobbyist, manage this dilemma? Is it as simple as just maintain them at 100% all the time and replace the batteries more frequently?
Appreciate it!
