May The Power Be With You

[Karel Jansens]

I think I'm going to make my own external charger with 4 rechargeable D-cells, a cheap battery pack, a diode and a 3mm plug from a broken charger. Even the old "D"s I have lying around provide 4500 mAhs which, given the inefficiency of an external charger, might be enough to almost recharge a Panda completely.

That's sixteen hours of flying. I don't even know places beyond that flight time.

 

[pelrun]

Those gazillion-mAh rechargable batteries are only NiMH or NiCad (no lithium with the awful single-resistor charging circuit they use.) There's no way the capacities they're reporting are correct, even when they were only touting 8000mAh. 2000mAh is probably pretty accurate.

I should probably use the 5v step-up circuit from mine and fashion a better battery pack one of these days...