Battery Charging

It didn't take many sortes to realize battery logistics required some planning and development.

I decided to introduce field re-charging early in R&D process so I could develop processes and procedures, and ultimately a platform for managing batteries in forward deployments.

Even though my R&D copter used relatively small 3 and 4 cell batteries, I had a system built that was capable of rapid charging the 8000MaH monster batteries I suspected I would ultimately be using. I did this because I also needed more sophisticated computer aided battery charging tech early in the R&D process (for accurate performance and endurance characterization),  and figured I might as well design for the ultimate field deployment.

 Here's the 2000W portable dual charging system I had built. Not only was it helpful for my early testing (produces tons of useful data), but this portable system has the capacity to quickly charge multiple of the 6 cell 8000MaH monster batteries I eventually ended up using with the mission 'copter:

I combined this with an portable generator to enable multiple sortes while out on the test range (which has no access to power)