Can a Drone Fly with AA Batteries?

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AA batteries power just about anything in your house! But can it fly a racing drone?
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@krispymedia9373 3 года назад

THE ENDING!!!!! That's why we love Bardwell

@DrMacca 3 года назад

So good! lmao

@Sacred_l0g1x 3 года назад

@Rowan Damien what for wretched ain't you

@ReplicateReality Год назад

Lol

@andyhoughtaling6319 Год назад

lol dude is a wildcard apparently

@hweissi 3 года назад

Sam: "I put only the essentials on there" Shawn: "LEDs on the arms it is!"

@tristanlizaola5852 3 года назад

😂😂

@DENMONKEY 2 года назад

And a vtx.

@smooth_ops2942 3 года назад

Drew is out of control with the dramatics, he's ready for LA😂

@RCOverKill 3 года назад

Yeah, a bit dramatic.

@ariafpv 3 года назад

Kinda annoying

@brmcf 3 года назад

@@ariafpv he's always annoying

@alexjuhasz3687 3 года назад

@@brmcf +1 hes making me go nuts sometimes

@twavis_g 3 года назад

His overreactions are the reason I hesitate before clicking on these videos.

@jonathantanner9517 3 года назад

Bardwell just sending it right at the very end was the best thing I’ve seen from RR in years. That’s the kind of off the cuff humor I love.

@polomarknot17 3 года назад

I had a lot of fun doing this! Working with the RR guys is always great, especially when they're convinced the task is basically impossible

@NOVUSuk 3 года назад

Agree with Aakash 💯

@DrMacca 3 года назад

Awesome stuff, man. Well done!

@maddog2314 3 года назад

Just goes to show how well deserved the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was.

@Pile_of_carbon 3 года назад

Hah! That is so true dude! Imagine a timeline where li-ion and lipo didn't happen. "Apple released their latest iPhone today. It only weighs in at 3kg, 90 % of which is battery. CEO Tim Cook says he is hopeful they'll get that down to 87 % within a decade! In other news, Amanda Smith, age 15 is the new world champion of arm wrestling. She attributes her insane stamina and vice-like grip to TikTok and texting her friends for several hours every day..."

@timsanders7632 3 года назад

@@Pile_of_carbon this made me LOL

@DrMacca 3 года назад

@@Pile_of_carbon lmao, brilliant!!!

@terranovarain6570 3 года назад

@@Pile_of_carbon lol 😆 😂 🤣

@terranovarain6570 3 года назад

Most people don't realize how much of our modern way of life we owe to John B Goodenough not only for lipo lion batteries but even ram and transistors kinda sucks that the new lithium ceramic batteries have lower power density considering they have none of the drawbacks of lipo batteries even in regards to operating temp discharge/charge rates and dendrites

@TrithFPV 3 года назад

The reactions are so extreme, they almost appear fake. You're messing with double AA battery's, not the philosopher’s stone.

@LosAngeles234 3 года назад

Dude perfect reactions lol

@grimfpv292 3 года назад

Haha, getting the wrong connector on the battery. Classic. :-)

@YorkyPoo_UAV 3 года назад

When Vanny says a battery might catch on fire... He overcharges all of his batteries too.

@tehllama42 3 года назад

I never want that meme to die... because it's hilarious

@Schradermusic 3 года назад

You can charge a LiPo (4.2V) to LiHV (4.35V) voltage without any risk. The only thing is that the lifetime of the battery will shorten by a lot.

@minkorrh 3 года назад

This is actually an interesting demonstration of how much power these little lipos we use have. The energy density and discharge rate is incomparable.

@vampcaff 3 года назад

for those that dont remember the days of nicd and nimh know damn well we can use AA's in rc toys. lol the drone community acts like all this stuff if new uncharted territory.

@OrTeddy 3 года назад

Yeah but flying takes a lot more energy and power than rolling a car along the ground, drones never ran off of nimh

@JonGraceCox 3 года назад

13:10 😆 Priceless reactions.

@Skateroo 3 года назад

This is literally how I powered random electronics I was trying to mess with when I was like 8. I literally taped batteries together.

@dronemoodbr 3 года назад

04:55 Me looking at the deans connector and thinking: something wrong is not right 05:36 Joshua: oh my God, stop!

@matthewarchibald5118 3 года назад

Xt60

@carsonlight_lapse6394 3 года назад

Basically it's the internal resistance that are sagging out the voltage as more current goes through the battery, basic physics, so this is why we used lipo cuz the internal resistance won't be taking out a lot of voltage in the process of discharging (ie internal resistance -> heat, that's why the bat pack got very hot)

@volksyes9477 3 года назад

I would have tried tethering it and flying it like an old school RC helicopter, like the one I remembered my grand dad flew back in the early 80’s a good 30 feet of wire hoooked up to a car battery.

@NicholasRehm 3 года назад

They used to fly helis off those nimh packs before lipo was a thing, so not very surprised

@desertdronepilot 3 года назад

And rc cars, just you could not poke it with a sewing pin and almost light your house on fire (My Mistake)

@markiemark7018 3 года назад

Love these episodes! 🔥🔥

@reystafford9949 3 года назад

I've been wanting to try this one too. Tnx

@benmorgan4928 3 года назад

Couldn’t you try this using a toothpick-style setup with an all in one flight controller/esc to save weight. Maybe a 1s 3 inch build

@realestate2827 3 года назад

I hope that when I have kids some day that I can show the same level of excitement when they bring me their arts and crafts as Le Drib when the drone arms on double AA batteries.

@Marshcar 3 года назад

I was just walking through walmart yesterday and thought about doing this myself when I saw some AA batteries on a shelf, now today you upload it! That's so weird

@uptimefpv 3 года назад

Love this kind of content! Great video! I would have used AAA batteries, and then connected 3 sets in parallel with some capacitors to handle current spikes.

@iWhacko 2 года назад

why not use 9v block batteries?

@JBothell_KF0IVQ 3 года назад

Did anyone else see BARDWELL handling a powered drone with the PROPS ON!!!! dude... that's hard core

@Mr18031967 3 года назад

love this type of video so good

@larsmartintangen7072 3 года назад

18650 battery's is a viable option for a long range 6" - 7" quad, they even use them on 3". But there is not a lot of videos out there about this topic. Maby a idea for future RR video ? Anyway , loved this video and its so nice to see a channel like RR doing fun experiments and not only showing different flights like most fpv channels does

@Vousie 3 года назад

18650's are still lithium. Here the point was to use AA batteries...

@Thelango99 Год назад

@@Vousie There are lithium AA batteries. AA is a form factor, not a chemistry.

@Vousie Год назад

@@Thelango99 Sure. By AA batteries I meant the standard ones - alkaline or, if you want rechargeable, NiMH. Not specialty ones like the lithium batteries.

@shadowfpv8904 3 года назад

Awesome video. Love your flying

@ChainsawFPV 3 года назад

I did not know I needed to know this. Thank you! How about a link to Sam's channel?

@mrgarkeiner 3 года назад

ahahahahahah I couldn't stop laughing when he soldered on the wrong type of XT60. because when i built my first quad the same thing happened to me and I also got the same face expression XD

@Noical 3 года назад

ayy Sam's here! throwback to flying a TT lipo on 5in haha

@stephenkarpath 3 года назад

😂🤣 that awesome!! Would be cool if it worked same way as Lipos 😎 Bardwell at the end🤣🤣

@im_botabe 3 года назад

You're crazy guys, love it. 😂

@minonim8749 3 года назад

My motor prop nut doesnt fit properly(cant screw it down all the way so that it sits on the prop ) how do i fix this i have to use a spacer so that it fits tight

@dividingbyzerofpv6748 3 года назад

Good job. Have always wondered but never had any desire to screw with it

@Vousie 3 года назад

And in this episode of "Rotor Riot have no science skills and think they can just mash things together"... The fact that Sam could to a full roll and land gracefully again, but they couldn't even with *his own method* tells me there's something seriously wrong going on there.

@tribefpv 3 года назад

That punch out was insane, how do you handle such power 💪😂

@foomp4532 3 года назад

Supercapacitors next?

@SimpleMeFPV 3 года назад

Very interesting 🤔. I ♥️ the channel 👍 you all rock! Any thoughts of making anymore micro 3” drone videos? “Micro madness spotlight”!!

@AtomFPV 3 года назад

Love these videos.

@davidmiddleton3223 3 года назад

Nice episode. I'm currently playing catchup on your back-cataloge. I recently watched one that had two pilots swapping control of the kwad by handing over the transmitter. You've also done one with two kwads stuck together and the pilots arming their one depending on which way was up. Can you do one where two pilots fly one drone, no swapping transmitter; each pilot controls one gimbal.

@CGKFPV 3 года назад

lol that would be absurd if anyone could fly like that! Really cool idea

@davidmiddleton3223 3 года назад

My thoughts as well.

@RursusPsittacus 2 года назад

This is the ultimate electrical engineering nerd out video.

@Enderkruemel 3 года назад

I did Fly a 7" 6s Drohne on 2s. It works just fine, But has a little to less Power. But that was expected. I think i can Fly whithout any Problems whith 7,2 v (6s nimh) car packs. Also i tryed lifepo4 Batterys and this works as well. Also li-ion packs are very Good. I also did a test whith a NiCd pack from a Drill. Also packs for our lawntrimmer work fine. The heavyest Batterie pack was a lead-gel/ lead acid 12v 3A one. It was flyable, But had a very big voltage sag(down To 9v) I also used my old and very Bad whoop packs to Made a bigger pack. Also i tested supercapacitors, cellphone Batteries(removed Protektion circuit) and a intro Motor whith a Generator. (this was the only fail, Not enough Power from the Generator)

@Chromie21 3 года назад

the drone letsflyrc made for the batteries flies less because its using more power for the fpv signal, when the other one was LOS

@Guilefpv 3 года назад

Can you try it with 9v batteries next? there's are rectangular in shape, probably easier to mount and stack too.

@baggszilla 3 года назад

Drew looks so weird with FatShark goggles on I'm not used to it!

@fpvlegion 3 года назад

Guys , please, SAFETY... even being almost impossible to just fly away or burst into psico mode, testing live motors with props indoors just contradicts PROPS OFF master voice!

@JoshuaBardwell 3 года назад

Realistically, there was no way the AA pack would have enough power to do anything dangerous. Calculated risk, professional pilots, etc.

@penfpv7100 3 года назад

Amazing video!

@skippyfpvexperimentalrc6755 3 года назад

Great Sam ! I awesome build . You look so different then the last time I flew with you

@chrisfaison8912 11 месяцев назад

you guys are super smart how bought you collectively design and build a safer battery for FPV i say you can do it change the game

@thetesseract2237 3 года назад

Use rechargeable Nickel metal hydride cells as they have lower internal resistance and the Loop brand rechargeable AAs can handle 10 amps

@starshipfpv 3 года назад

Lol.. Jeff face at the end

@MrTurboTash 2 года назад

If you try this again try D cell. Still same tech but the D cells were intended for motor run stuff. (or at least the best this tech could do)

@Wearyman 3 года назад

This would work quite well with a fixed-wing plane. Especially a big lightly built one.

@bizmar 3 года назад

Last exterior segment really needed another color grade pass, it's all over the place. Denoise, Renoise! Solid episode too. 😄

@Dr_Mario2007 Год назад

Normally AA battery (that's of classic Alkaline variety) carries between 2 to 2.6 Amps hour of capacity, and very importantly, the internal resistance is also crucial since it alone can determine how much energy those batteries can actually dump without too much trouble. Generally Alkaline batteries suck compared to the Lithium-ion batteries when it comes to energy density per cell weight. Obviously Nickel Metal Hydride cells would do better than the Alkaline batteries since they have much lower internal resistance (closer to the Lithium-ion cells for some brand cells). Nevertheless that would be a fun experiment.

@cooperprophet1461 3 года назад

Could someone help me out, at the end when they were flying the 6” the motors were making a rough noise at a certain amount of throttle, my quad started to do the same thing with one of the motors, I don’t have a clue why. There’s no physical damage and the motors are all new.

@gregorpesek 3 года назад

this is a desync issue. Either you need new/more capacitors or a new esc

@CF_Joel 3 года назад

HAHAHA!!! At the end, JB showed how it can fly with NO batteries!

@checkm8606 3 года назад

How about a race between vanover and drew... but vanover has to use the batteries while drew has his lipos

@skippyfpvexperimentalrc6755 3 года назад

I have been working on engineering a 3s battery to get a fpv wing to fly for 45 min !

@gionag 3 года назад

Yes... You need power... But doing the same power with lower current (aka higher series cell count) will works better for high internal resistance cells like aa

@Scarecrow_Jenkins 3 года назад

FINALLY!! 🙌🙌🙌

@jacobreezyfpv6287 3 года назад

I've tried all tips of batterys and you should of tried the Energizer batteries last loger not that you guys did anything wrong just my opinion on batteries great video guys

@GregQuillen 3 года назад

Should be using like a rekon 5. Analog.. lower amp draw and we'd be able to see voltage and amp draw

@wheresmynamego1152 3 года назад

I gotta admit, I did learn something today

@niels8096 3 года назад

How about give it another try with a 1 cell drone, oversized props and 3 AA batteries (4.5v). Can it take of with that weight :P Great video as always!!

@fukale3438 3 года назад

sick! You should use a dc to dc Step up Converter with AA's and see what happens for science....

@traviscook5144 3 года назад

This is very entertaining

@revertfpv2928 3 года назад

Is it legal to fly at this park? There are flying helicopters and planes like 100m up

@power-max 3 года назад

Placing my bet: Very saggy, very heavy. Will struggle to hover, more likely just spin the props and not lift off at all. Compared to lithium, alkaline chemistry has much higher internal resistance. Because the voltage is lower you need more cells in series, and the series resistance adds up fast. Energy density is qctually not a huge amount lower than that of a lipo, maybe 30% to 50% less guestimating based on equivelent energy in 3 AA's as a single 18650, but an 18650 has almost double the energy density of a lipo. A 1500mAH single cell from a lipo is probably roughly equivelent to 2 AAs. Problem is of course, power density. That ESR severely limits the amps. My guess for the best configuration will be 10S3P

@MarkKunoff 3 года назад

Ok guys, glad you got it out of your system. Next!

@Madison_Rosewood-Anderson 3 года назад

The end 😂

@atlasfpv7030 3 года назад

Cool! What about a copter with an internal combustion engine?)))

@Kyodaina_ 2 года назад

i know this is old. but i wish you guys had saftey glasses for this lol.

@deadshotx4741 3 года назад

someone thinks : that will catch on fire. Why are u doing this rotor riot : thats why

@stephenclark6267 3 года назад

Their was a guy who posted on the mulitcopter reddit page of a micro with a single 18650 batter as power. He said it was self made. Is there something like that out on the market?

@TheStopmotionMovie 3 года назад

Kababfpv made his babytooth 3inch 1s quad fly with a single 18650

@overkilldyl6841 3 года назад

Joshua always throwing drones lol

@lubbockburton4677 3 года назад

Can a Drone fly with AA batteries? "Me clicking on the video knowing they figured out how to do it"

@kdobson83 3 года назад

Wouldn’t it have worked better if you used different motors and props that were designed to be super efficient? The old school Flite Test guys used to fly their H quads with 8” 2 blade slow fly props and 2212 motors with wooden booms and everything. That combo pulls max 10 amps with the right pitch prop. x4 motors and your like 40a punch outs and maybe max 20a hover. And they did that on 3s, so less battery than you all used. Anyway, I think this rates a revisit but done with different hardware. Time to call David “The Swede”.

@polomarknot17 3 года назад

Allegedly David attempted - and failed - to make it fly on AA batteries

@JoshuaBardwell 3 года назад

For the record, we tried like five other things that didn't work, including lithium AA (just as an example), and calling in David Windestal for advice, but not all of that made the edit.

@NOVUSuk 3 года назад

Great video as per

@Lizlodude 3 года назад

Large toothpick... I propose we name this class the skewer.

@Gbmaster137 3 года назад

6:27 "It just died, the video cut out" So he has an extra pair of eyes on his forehead?

@giovannip.1433 3 года назад

What about using 10" propellers and lower rpm? Move more air utilising 'wing' lift.

@AGILISFPV 3 года назад

5:35 LOL

@furonwarrior 3 года назад

What’s most likely going to happen is that the excessive heat from forcing current draw from AA batteries will destroy the anode and cathode, burn up the dry electrolyte before the battery will drain. You guys should really of done the more Scientific approach so you can determine how many AA batteries you would need to actually fly the quadcopter and see if you can pull it off. I would recommend using 6S+ motors because with higher voltage, it’ll use less current draw which is where the AA batteries suffer the most.

@kitten-whisperer 2 года назад

Scientific research? Guy, relax. It was just a little video idea to see if it would work. I doubt they actually care about spending the time to research the shit to make it work

@wongalahara8196 3 года назад

Camera guy having too much fun with the zoom and quick pans xD

@timhout2032 3 года назад

try 18650's, they're used in vapes, some vapes use 200 Watts or even more. And im pretty sure you can onder them already spot welded

@tylerm.7737 3 года назад

I wanna see coin batteries next time!

@-lolus- 3 года назад

i was tchinking abaut that today XD

@carboncubss 3 года назад

Need more Bardwell on RR!!!

@timm1065 3 года назад

did Jeff forget his name in the intro??? LOL

@joshgarver1197 3 года назад

Bardwell is always throwing shit hahaha!

@aggrobert8490 3 года назад

What a great idea Disposable drone batterys Greta would Love you

@VdubSPAZ 3 года назад

I'm curious have you guys done a video on different types of lithium batteries...... That would be interesting to see the results of performance...... Because we know we fly with lipo which is lithium polymer .... Then there is liFe batteries and then there is lithium ion and I want to say that they call them lie on ... And then there is a new style but very expensive lithium but it's mostly graphite and it's not our style of lithium graphene but similar you might find the research on RU-vid

@DigitalN8v 3 года назад

Change the pids and tune motors and throttle in beta flight.

@madtoffelpremium8324 3 года назад

Using rechargeable AA batteries doesn't count. Good NIMH batteries can sustain much higher amp draws than Alkaline battries, although they are still leagues away from li-ion or even lipo batteries.

@evandoyle891 Год назад

Now you need to make a drone that will fly with solar panels only

@joshwayop5413 3 года назад

Use rechargable NIMH AA batteries and it will work even better

@tk-maker Год назад

Lol, you should try bigger build. I got one 15inch props with 4822 390kv 6s drone, It lift well at 5amp. a single motor will produce 1.5kg thrust at 12 amps

@salvadornl 3 года назад

Instead of 1.5V alkaline batteries you should use A23 12v Alkaline batteries. With 12volts and 23 amps and being half the size of een AA battery I bet it would work.

@licensetodrive9930 3 года назад

I'm only a minute in and am guessing you did manage to get it to hover at least. Whatever the material & quantities of they make Duracell batteries with has got to be a closely guarded secret, I found a set of 4 Duracell AA's in an old RC car and after 30 years (or longer) they still read 1.46v, no leaking, can still be used.

@smooth_ops2942 3 года назад

That's surprising they didn't leak and actually still had good voltage. I don't buy duracell anymore because they always seem to leak on me so I buy energizer if I buy name brand.

@licensetodrive9930 3 года назад

@@smooth_ops2942 Yeah they must've changed their recipe in the past decade or two, Duracells made in that time do now leak. When rechargeable AA's turned up I used them as much as possible because the cost saving over continually buying alkalines was massive. Now I rarely need AAAs & AAs, lithium batteries are reigning supreme, although I wish more devices had user replaceable lithium batteries.

@smooth_ops2942 3 года назад

@@licensetodrive9930 Well what I've heard through the years is that only a few company's actually produce and make all the batteries and then relabel them to whatever company wants to buy them...lead acid car batteries are definitely that way cause I use to sell them. I've also seen tests on the news and youtube to which they last the same amount of time and often perform better than the name brands. You can buy a pack of 30 AA's at Harbor freight or Northern Tool for like $4 to $6 which is mind blowing cause name brands would be $17 to $23 for the same quantity.