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A significant amount of energy in the battery is dedicated to keeping the electronics warm, which is why the flights are so short.
by dkdk8283 6y ago
A significant amount of energy in the battery is dedicated to keeping the electronics warm, which is why the flights are so short.
- vizzier 6y agoVideo from Veritasium about the helicopter that talk with the team about this. He mentions that 2/3rds of the daily energy gathered is used for the purpose[1] Other information about the tech; camera & landing, energy use for heating, flight in low pressure atmosphere, the system to actually land the thing, is also really interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhsZUZmJvaM
- hackeraccount 6y agoI thought I read somewhere that the length of the flight was dictated by over heating. That the thinness of the atmosphere required the rotors to move so fast that it was difficult to radiate the heat produced - radiating that was also made difficult because of the atmosphere.