Just wondering what a good percentage figure you should stopat per flight to not be damaging to your battery? 20%? I flew my ring rat today and the battery read 1% just wondering if this is bad for the battery? I have only done this once.
My experience is that if you don't let the cell voltage drop below about 3.5 (some say 3.7 others in the RC forums have gone as low as 3.0). I check *after* every flight and I have yet to figure out just what causes what once you have the prop and rpm's right. I have a set of rather cheap 4s 2800's that routinely go to 15% with no loss of power (5:25 Flight time with RPM's around 9800) all 4 have 50 cycles on them. Some days they go to 20% others they go to 10%. When the motor is cold (1st flight) it seems to use less.
What I like though is that I get the same flight just a different amount of "fuel" in the tank at the end. If you get the wrong nitro or needle setting with IC you get a crappy run.
I have gone to 3000 with the predictable increase in head room and predictable weight increase but I don't see any change in power or battery life. I put them all back to 50% storage as soon as I get home and never leave them fully charged more that 2 days.
I am still relatively new at electric so I may not see the big picture clearly yet but I see others getting roughly the same number of cycles out of their Thunderpower batteries as I am getting from the Turnigy and I buy three of them on sale for what 1 Thunderpower costs on sale.
Ken