(21-Apr-2024, 07:42 PM)Pathfinder075 Wrote: That canopy is sweet.  Must buy some of them myself.  They would suit some of my bigger builds just as easily as the smaller ones.

Yeah they are fairly universal and the hole spacings are not critical. Mine didn't bend too nice nor easily though. I think I am going to try and use a heat gun on the next one.

Battery tests.

I am really disappointed at the CNHL battery. They said 350 mah but I get only 2 1/2 minutes of flying (my style). Whereas I am now getting 3 1/2 minutes from my "questionable" Tattu. I didn't realized I bought 10 of these CNHL packs.

The Dogcom 300 mah is not that good either.

However the BetaFPV Lava is doing quite well. They have potential.

I can't wait to try the New Bee Drone Nectar Gold.

That's the rub with CNHL. You often don't get as much flight time per pack, but overall you get more flight time. Over here (in the sales), I can get two 2x 3S 450 CNHL Lipos for £10 or less. I can buy one Tattu 3S 450 for the same price. The CNHL packs give me about 4-5 mins of freestyle and up to 6-6.5 mins of cruisey type flying, depending on how aggressive I am on the throttle. The Tattu 450 will give me 5-6 mins of aggressive freestyle or 7-8 mins of cruisey type flying. So CNHL I get two packs but one pack lasts less time, but overall I get about 20-25% more flight time for the money.

So I tend to run both, but the Tattu is really good for not sagging when you are flying like a speed demon, so if I want to do some specific trick that is hard on the batteries I tend to run Tattu. But if I am going to do some light freestyle and just fly and dive for the fun factor, I use CNHL. Everything is calculated and I use the best battery for the job. normally i go to where I'm flying and carry maybe twelve CNHL and four to six Tattu. I will fly CNHL most of the time, but will use the Tattu packs at the end when I'm really in the zone and ready to rip hard.

(22-Apr-2024, 09:54 PM)Pathfinder075 Wrote: That's the rub with CNHL.  You often don't get as much flight time per pack, but overall you get more flight time.  Over here (in the sales), I can get two 2x 3S 450 CNHL Lipos for £10 or less.  I can buy one Tattu 3S 450 for the same price.  The CNHL packs give me about 4-5 mins of freestyle and up to 6-6.5 mins of cruisey type flying, depending on how aggressive I am on the throttle.  The Tattu 450 will give me 5-6 mins of aggressive freestyle or 7-8 mins of cruisey type flying.  So CNHL I get two packs but one pack lasts less time, but overall I get about 20-25% more flight time for the money.  

So I tend to run both, but the Tattu is really good for not sagging when you are flying like a speed demon, so if I want to do some specific trick that is hard on the batteries I tend to run Tattu.  But if I am going to do some light freestyle and just fly and dive for the fun factor, I use CNHL.  Everything is calculated and I use the best battery for the job.  normally i go to where I'm flying and carry maybe twelve CNHL and four to six Tattu.  I will fly CNHL most of the time, but will use the Tattu packs at the end when I'm really in the zone and ready to rip hard.

Yeah, even with my "cruising" around the CNHL pack sags a lot. I will fly them just because I have so many and I will just treat them as disposables. So far the darn Tattu 1S is really doing the best.

TBH, that's all i class CNHL as. In terms of Lipos they are heavier than most other brands and don't provide quite as much energy. Mine so far are going on 15 months without failing so maybe it's an unfair description, but they are cheap and easy to source. I generally run three brands, CNHL, GNB and Tattu. I class them in the same order. Price wise they are ordered the same. but so far all of my packs are still going strong. My GNB 2S packs are almost two years old and have been cycled maybe 200 times, probably more.

But 1S is a weird size and it seems the properties are completely different to every other size. I guess you need to remortgage your home so you can afford more Tattu packs.

(23-Apr-2024, 02:01 AM)Pathfinder075 Wrote: TBH, that's all i class CNHL as.  In terms of Lipos they are heavier than most other brands and don't provide quite as much energy.  Mine so far are going on 15 months without failing so maybe it's an unfair description, but they are cheap and easy to source.  I generally run three brands, CNHL, GNB and Tattu.  I class them in the same order.  Price wise they are ordered the same.  but so far all of my packs are still going strong.  My GNB 2S packs are almost two years old and have been cycled maybe 200 times, probably more.

But 1S is a weird size and it seems the properties are completely different to every other size.  I guess you need to remortgage your home so you can afford more Tattu packs.

The CNHL 1S 350 mah pack is actually lighter than the BetaFPV or Tattu 300 mah packs. Only by fraction of a gram.

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(23-Apr-2024, 02:01 AM)Pathfinder075 Wrote: TBH, that's all i class CNHL as.  In terms of Lipos they are heavier than most other brands and don't provide quite as much energy.  Mine so far are going on 15 months without failing so maybe it's an unfair description, but they are cheap and easy to source.  I generally run three brands, CNHL, GNB and Tattu.  I class them in the same order.  Price wise they are ordered the same.  but so far all of my packs are still going strong.  My GNB 2S packs are almost two years old and have been cycled maybe 200 times, probably more.

But 1S is a weird size and it seems the properties are completely different to every other size.  I guess you need to remortgage your home so you can afford more Tattu packs.

The CNHL 1S 350 mah pack is actually lighter than the BetaFPV or Tattu 300 mah packs. Only by fraction of a gram.

All of mine are heavier. Usually by around 10g than the equivalent Tattu or GNB.

I also have a bunch of CNHL 1S PH2.0 packs somewhere. Bought them 18 months ago, never used them, got 16 of them. Just had a look, all 450mAh non-HV, never used so far. I was going to convert them to BT2.0, but it's unlikely to happen. I'll find some other way to use them. Maybe daisy chain them into bigger packs or parallel them or both. A 2S2P could be useful.