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Bebop 1 Battery Hack?

I have never used tamiya or tamiya minis before the bebop. Now I believe it is a good idea to change them out to something better. After days of flying the female metal socket widen or male thins and connection and power is really poor through those thin metal connects, they are almost as thin as 2 sheets of aluminum foil. Given how old the drones the connectors are way past their connect/disconnect limit.
 
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I have bebop 2 power but I modified the software to fly with all types of batteries.
my rule:
for lipos 4.15 to 3.6 is the ideal - Bebop lowest voltage 3.3353 per cell at 0% and 4.12549 at 100%
for lihv 4.35 to 3.7 is ideal - Bebop lowest voltage 3.3967 per cell at 0% and 4.2937 at 100%
for lion 4.1 to 2.8 is ideal - Bebop not accept official this type of battery

I think parrot stretched too much in the low values, But its look like they do not overcharge

I know people that flyes lipo to 3.30 but he know that battery will last no longer than 1 year.

I will try to find my lipo curve and post it here but in the end of the day you need to choose more fly time or more lifespan for the lipos
and remember charging under 1.5C will also help your battery to last longer

You don't need to reprogram the esc to stop at 3.25 just change this line in the estimator.cfg (under common folder)
Code:
shutdownVoltage = 9.3; # [V] Will be compared with the estimated no load voltage

Here are the tables from original bebop 1 estimator.cfg the other one in the other folder :)
Code:
batteryPercentageTableVoltage = [ 10.006162,
    10.137706,
    10.255447,
    10.359846,
    10.44951,
    10.526721,
    10.590937,
    10.642891,
    10.684048,
    10.721177,
    10.842647,
    10.895242,
    11.005138,
    11.067509,
    11.201546,
    11.282401,
    11.502464,
    11.568361,
    11.657422,
    11.791759,
    11.85994,
    11.945477,
    12.081564,
    12.121347,
    12.158171,
    12.202318,
    12.255653,
    12.318041,
    12.37648];
batteryPercentageTablePercentage = [ 0.0,
    0.54,
    1.11,
    1.72,
    2.37,
    3.09,
    3.9,
    4.85,
    6.06,
    8.14,
    17.33,
    22.84,
    37.54,
    43.98,
    54.99,
    60.49,
    73.32,
    76.54,
    79.83,
    84.22,
    86.97,
    91.42,
    96.52,
    97.72,
    98.42,
    98.95,
    99.38,
    99.74,
    100.0];
Hey bro! Maybe you can help me out on this. I have the Bebop 1. I made a battery sled with 3x 18650's. Samsung 25r's show some good potential. When I went to fly, lasted only 6 min, but batteries still had 3.95v per cell so I'm guessing I do need to modify the battery tables. While running telnet and draining the remaining charge, the Bebop stayed on for 65 min, so there's some potential here.

My question is I found two different battery tables: one in /etc/colibry/common estimator.cfg, and a second table in etc/colibry/mykonos3board estimator.cfg. The table in common looks like it'd be useful, but the table in mykonos is cutting off around 10.8v. Why the two tables? Should I just alter the mykonos estimator to match the common one?
 

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