I been reading a lot of information and reviews but none of the beginner guides explain things like S3, S4, S5, S6 type acronyms I been seeing. Does anyone know a tutorial or guide that will explain these common terms and what they mean so I can understand some of the information I been studying.

Thanks

Heres a link to r/multicopters list of abbreviations that should answer most acronyms/abbreviations:

https://www.reddit.com/r/multicopter/wiki/terminology

But generally when they refer to the (S) on a battery its refering to how many cells the battery has, so a 3s has 3 cells, 4s has 4 cells, etc...

I would really recommend looking up the UAV Futures channel on youtube, Stu does a pretty good job of explaining things. Or course there is also a ton of great information on this site as well. As someone knew to this whole thing as well I certainly understand the sheer amount of information can be a little bit overwhelming.

(09-Jan-2017, 11:43 PM)Bollucks760 Wrote: Heres a link to r/multicopters list of abbreviations that should answer most acronyms/abbreviations:

https://www.reddit.com/r/multicopter/wiki/terminology

But generally when they refer to the (S) on a battery its refering to how many cells the battery has, so a 3s has 3 cells, 4s has 4 cells, etc...

I would really recommend looking up the UAV Futures channel on youtube, Stu does a pretty good job of explaining things. Or course there is also a ton of great information on this site as well. As someone knew to this whole thing as well I certainly understand the sheer amount of information can be a little bit overwhelming.

Thanks that is exactly what I was looking for.. Also subscribed to that channel UAV Futures.

Have fun with all the reading and watching. If you still have some questions feel free to ask them, there are enough people around here who like to help you.

Yep, you should read every single tutorial article on Oscar's blog. You don't have to read the reviews, but definitely read the others. You will have a much better understanding of the whole hobby

(09-Jan-2017, 11:43 PM)Bollucks760 Wrote: But generally when they refer to the (S) on a battery its refering to how many cells the battery has, so a 3s has 3 cells, 4s has 4 cells, etc...

I don't mean to correct you, but as this is the 'beginner questions' section I just thought I'd clarify...

The S does refer to the amount of cells in the battery, but more specifically the number of cells wired in Series, therefore the higher the S number the more volts (increments of 3.7v for LiPo.) You also find batteries with a (P) prefix too which stands for the number of cells wired in Parallel.

So for example - a '3S2P 3000mAh battery' would be a 6 cell battery made up of 2 sets of 3x '3.7v 1500mAh' cells wired in Series calculating 11.1v, (3S 1500mAh) those 2 sets of 11.1v 1500mAh wired in Parallel gives you 11.1v 3000mAh.

(11-Jan-2017, 09:54 PM)varkokonyi Wrote: You don't have to read the reviews,

I agree you should read the tutorial articles on Oscar's blog, but I take issue with this!
You should read the reviews too, especially the Eachine E010 vs Eachine H8 comparison review, cos I wrote it, my 1st review!