Beastx Battery Drain

[Aidi]

Maidened my 700n with the Beastx yesterday.. Out of the box.. Very impressed!

Couple of changes to the parameters to bring it to my liking and it really is good.. kicks the 3G into touch.

I have noticed, that it will take the standard Align 7.4 1900mAh 2-1 battery down to 50% on just one flight

Nornally get 2 if not 3 with a flybar. This seems quite a significant drain on the battery.. Anything to be concerned about?

Its pretty cold at the moment too, so i expect that will contribute to the drop in capacity, but not this much.

Cheers
Aidi

[Mike W]

I would not worry too much about it Adie as FBL pull more per flight than a FB model ... Why not put a bigger battery on it ?

oh and its like you say, cold as well

[del19_82]

I'm sure Tim said on thread recently that even with a 3600mah pack he only gets 4 maybe 5 flights because FBL is more power hungry that flybarred

[jamiem]

Ignore the lights! Fly one flight on a fully charged pack, then re-charge it and see how many mA it took. Then you know how many flights you can get out of a pack. You dont want to take more than about 1500mA out of the pack in total.

[Aidi]

cool, as long as i am not the only one! Just looking at other batts now!!

[thumb_rocker]

I read in the manual that it if there is alot of amp draw then try reduce the swash servo frequency. I've got the same problem using the Align 7.4 1900mAh pack. Im running a Gryphon Regulator @ 6v on Futaba BLS 351's with Beast X on my Velocity 90 & get two 8 min flights of mild-hard 3D. I'll be sending BeastX a email tonight about this & will my servos be ok if i do? so I'll wait for the feed back & post any reply back up here.

[Cuppa]

I hav a 3600mah thunderpower rx pack on my 700n and 600n
ElyQ regs set @6v to cyclic, multigov pro,s on both 6040 cyclc servos running off
Beast X thay seem to be using about 350mah-430mah per flyt
depending how hard i fly it

[Paulo uk]

I'm using an elyq reg at 6v with jr8717s. I bought a 2s turnigy nanotech 4000mah battery from hbk and I did 6 medium 3d flights with it today and could have easily done another couple. Good batteries...

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[genty]

Aidi, I got the same thing. I flew my newly Beasted Trex 600N with a Fromeco 2600 Li-on yesterday and today and the power drain is big. I would usually get 4 -5 flights FB in these cold conditions but it was only safe with 2 flights before getting down to the red light with occassional orange flicker. I'm looking at upgrading a to a 3600 Li-po if it'll balance okay (around 165g compared to 106g for the Fromeco). I must say though - it is very enjoyable.
Ian.

[Aidi]

Cheers for the comments guys, at least its not just me, and a trait of the beastx configuration.

Ordered 2x 3600's for it. A bit of a redesign of the electronics on the nose and should all be good!

Rgds
Aidi

[Cuppa]

Aidi, I got the same thing. I flew my newly Beasted Trex 600N with a Fromeco 2600 Li-on yesterday and today and the power drain is big. I would usually get 4 -5 flights FB in these cold conditions but it was only safe with 2 flights before getting down to the red light with occassional orange flicker. I'm looking at upgrading a to a 3600 Li-po if it'll balance okay (around 165g compared to 106g for the Fromeco). I must say though - it is very enjoyable.
Ian.

I dump'd the 2-1reg i think thay are power draining!and unreliable!!
nowt wrong with a glow stick! saves power in the rx pack
i also rate the Ely Q reg

[DT39]

Yeah it seems the norm with flybarless. I'm running 3600Mah Mission cell with elyQ reg at 6v with 610's on Trex 600 and i seem to get about five flights.
Don't forget the servo's are now doing the work the flybar used to and they are more direct in line with the head so it's going to pull more amps.

[genty]

Cuppa, it's not the 2 in 1. I agree though, the glow stick is the way to go.