average current draw in hover

[theseankelly]

Hey -- curious what the average current draw from the cflie is when it's in flight -- (a static hover indoors). Does anyone have that measurement?

Thanks
Sean

[tobias]

Maybe this investigation we did can give some answers? To get 29 grams of thrust you draw around 2.2A current which means ~550mA per motor.

Or a 7min flight with a 240mAh battery gives about 3.7*0.24/7*60 = 7.6W for the whole system. Electronics is roughly 0.37W of that.

[kekeller]

This post I made yesterday should probably help as well: viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2207&p=11214#p11214

It does not cover motor draw (hint - a lot), but all the electronics are covered.

[theseankelly]

Thanks! I'm just doing some back of the envelope calculations for how much flight time I'd lose if I hook up a custom FPV deck I'm thinking of building -- 25-50mW tx with a micro-minumOSD. Probably would lose about 1 to 2 minutes of flight time. The OSD and the 5v step-up needed for it would probably take 500mA-750mA alone, so that might not be so practical...but perhaps I'll build it up anyway!