LiPo Battery Basics: How to Make Them Last Longer! 

Woo! Thanks for watching. Are you guys tired of all these battery-related videos yet? I hope to get into more interesting stuff soon. Just working from the ground up! Hopefully I can start releasing videos more frequently too!

I would have wasted a lot of money if I didn't watch this video first. My HOTA charger just arrived and all settings immediately made sense for discharge, charge, storage, and balance. Thanks Matt!! Not sure what I would do in this hobby without your easily digestible videos for us beginners to the hobby.

I have 7 of the 4s Arris 1500mah lipo's for 2 years now and use them a lot. They are going strong, long flight times and No sag at all. Im impressed 👍👍

This video deserves more views. Great job!

Thx Matt, I just bought a new dual charger so this was a great refresher . Peace !

Great explanation of storage voltage. Loving these battery videos.

I like the way you explain things. It seems always so clear and easy to understand. Congrats. Great content!

Matt, thanks for your content, I am new to FPV and must say you and Bardwell gave me the final push!!!

Come to think about it, one thing you did not mention is that if your quad has a current sensor, you can also use that as a very accurate "fuel gauge". If you fly with a 1000 mah battery in good condition, you can fly it safely and use about 800mah of current. This may be worth its own video, because you still want to double check the resting battery voltage and that your charger puts back 800 mah into the battery when charging. Good habits that also help you monitor health of your battery if you notice this capacity change when flying and/or charging. If you do make a follow up video about this, it may also be useful to talk about what a battery with a damaged cell looks like, where you may charge a pack and 3 out of 4 cells show 4.2v per cell and one of them may show 4.05v or something. This is a sign of a battery with a bad cell that should be retired or at least grounded.

Outstanding work with your "B-Roll".

Thank you for your informative and simple videos. Keep it up!

New into electric motors, and so on. I find your videos very engaging; your pace and cinematics are excellent.

I just checked on some old batteries I've had for probably over 3 years now, They were all under 2v. Safe to say I am glad I saw this video and that it reminded me of them

Thank you. 👍 I'm new to the RC world and I've struggled to understand lipo batteries even after watching countless videos!! Your explanation using food and exercise made perfect sense.

You can get to a million subscriber's! You will!! Glad to be apart of your upcoming journey!!!

this content is so helpful dude and its presented in away that makes it supper easy for us beginners!

Thank you! Awesome valued information!

I've been flying for years and I wish videos like yours were around when I started. I always use a timer on my transmitter. I know how long my batteries will last and land if I've been speeding about or not so.

Keep it up. I have been flying for a while and find your videos very refreshing, well thought-out, clean, and organized. You even spent time making a boat load of pancakes just for an illustration- kudos! These are modern videos for new and upcoming drone pilots and its a needed niche! Many videos are slapped together-even by seasoned pilots and reviewers because their in a rush to create content. If you have to speak to your future self- your posting too quickly. Stay in the lane you created and subs will follow. Thanks!

Hey, I'am a professional battery builder and I think you need to try out using liion batteries on your Nazgul5. With 4s1p 3000mah u get 14 Min of flight time and its as heavy as a 1300mah 4s lipo. Great Video btw

I just found your videos. Well made and very helpful. I just ordered a Hobbymate D6 pro charger. Thanks

Great stuff! Just stumbled upon your channel and Instagram! You have a great channel here!

Awesome video for us newbies to the rc hobby.

Great video. Well explained

Love the the tips bro!

thanks a lot #Matt for deep details. you saved my lipos. I was so rude with them. I put the alarm on my tx and mission planner at 3.7v per cell, and now I try to fly safe and land before alarm buzz!

Super great video. I learned a lot and I love it

Great job man !

Thank you this vid helps me a lot

Thanks Matt this video helped heaps I’m new to FPV and I’m getting really overwhelmed watching what seems like millions of YT videos on how to charge, discharge & storage on lipo’s 🤯 just bought the GEPrc cinelog 25 it’s been sitting here for a week because I’m try to get this charging info correct researching in my spare time. Your video is easy to understand. And what I’ve learnt from this video and comments are : Battery normal voltage written on my 650mAh 4s is 14.8v ✅ Fully charged it’ll be 16.8v ✅ storage voltage is around 15.2v ✅ Flying up until landing at 14V @ 80% empty ✅ I’ve yet to start watching your Parallel charging video but I’m guessing for example on 2x 650mAh: since I’ll set my charger to 0.7A it’ll be double @ 1.4A for x2 batteries and so on for x3 or x4 batteries. ? I don’t expect a reply but if you see this pls confirm then I’m set. Keep up the great work I’m lovin your channel 👍🏻

That was super helpful!

wow man, your getting lots of subscribers, keep it up, im sure you'll reach 1k in no time!

I am still flying my 3 year old batteries until today. I mainly use them to warm up a little bit and then start using my newer ones. Obviously I can feel a pretty noticable power difference, but for my use case these are totally fine. Even when I crash them (bottom mounted batteries) I don't really have to care about them...

Great Videos for beginners you deserve more likes

I have a 3s that I’ve had for over 5 years. It was my main battery for at least 3 of daily use

I have some 4 year old packs that I am still flying on fixed wing without problems. Without telemetry I don't usually know how much I have used but I'm pretty conservative. I usually do a discharge, recharge to storage after a day flying. I'm just getting into fpv quads so will watch the lifetime of batteries. I hope they last longer than a year as the price will add up quickly. Also delivery times and the hassle of getting the batteries imported (to Canada) is a pain.

I've stop looking at voltage, its not accurate to gauge when to stop. I fly 1500mah batt and will stop at 1200mah, all my batt now last more than a year. But its a pain to setup the current sensor..

So basically we must check the storage voltage is 3.8 for each cell in a battery ?

valeu amigo, vc incrivelmente explicou melhor que qualquer um que eu tenha visto videos, parabéns pelo video

I wish I knew this before, lol, keep up the great instructional videos

Helpful - thanks!

Great video!

Bro you should consider mAh consumption to know when to land, for example when the mAh readings reaches 900~1000 on a 4s 1300mAh, you know you should land immediately because you consumed 80% of its charge.. and a good idea is to calibrate the current sensor by taking average mAh consumed by about 5 batteries then compare it to how much mAh the charger provided while charging the same batteries and get that ratio and set it on betaflight current sensor calibration.

I got some tattu r line 3.0 I've raced super hard but always kept them at storage when not in use and they still strong to this day. Low IR and still got punch. Just takes a little bit of care

good video! thanks

Good video and good info. Actually, discharging to a resting 14.7v is even pushing them a little. I also watched some of Steele's videos and I follow one of his recommendations that said that go to 14v under moderate load and then land. Aim for resting voltage of about 15v for a 4S or about 3.75v per cell

good video Matt

Oh! Good to know! Luckily I have been flying alot since I got these packs, otherwise I would've kept them in storage at 4.3 volts, since they're high voltage batteries...

Great content pls keep posting more fpv related video. Even though you said your not. BTW your skills is improving than your first time keep it up!!!

You could calibrate the voltage reading in betaflight for a more accurate reading

Great info bro...new sub.🙏👍

Im new to the hobby i run a 4s lipo when its fully charged at 16.8 i always fly it to about 15.2 and sometimes 15.0v give me about 2 to 2min 30sec witch for me is a good enough flight time and when i check the battery im always on the perfect storage voltage

so at how many amps do you discharge for storage? i have the same batteries and same charger. i usually discharge at a current of 1.5a. can i go higher for faster storage or is that the sweet spot for these particular batteries?

if the same battery management logic applies to li-po powerbanks that are used for smartphones etc. does that mean when im not using it too much i should leave a charge of abt ~20%? as well

HIII, going to buy the Nazgul5 V2 6S drone and a TX16S reciever, wondering which type of reciever that works best with TX16S that I should choose on the drone and why? :)) any help is appreciated

I have had a pack of 6s 7000mah batts they lasted 11 years now 😉 bit puffy but still my best battery 😎😎

Flying to 3.5 us okay 👌 it won't hurt a thing. I do this on All my lipos. Then i store at 3.85 after my flights.😊😊

It's a good practice to not look at pack voltage to land but at cell voltage. That way, every single pack you fly, 1s to 6s or higher, you always know consistently when to land. I land at 3.2v in my OSD but that jumps back up to 3.5v, 3.6v when I check the battery after flying so that's enough. Charging the battery also damages the battery in the end because there's only so much cycles it can do so if you really want to get the most out of your battery it's better to fly it till the lowest safe voltage.

I have five or six Lipo‘s that I have used for 3 to 5 years and I’ve never done anything special with them besides not letting them get below voltage and not overcharging them.... and of course I didn’t leave them in direct sunlight or store them anywhere hot... i’ve been using the same $20 fast charger all this time as well... I think what it boils down to is use some common sense as in don’t run them below voltage or Overcharge and store them correctly.. I have never discharge them Nor have I ever charge them for storage

Ur the best

So what numbers should I follow with 6s 1300mah?

A combination of accu cells is named a battery. How do you name single use batteries like alcaline types in Mignon or Micro size?

Thanks for the great videos! I don’t understand this one though, on my 4s battery it says it’s a 14.8V battery, so how can the storage voltage and lowest discharge be lower than that?

2:39 Most Canadian thing ever.

I don't learn anything from These as I've been flying since January and plenty of experience. But your voice is good and it's entertaining to watch for whatever reason haha. Cheers mate

Will a battery bought 5 yrs ago without used be able to work now?

I have had mine for about 2years but its very swollen i think it Will explodera if i charge it again

How many batteries you recommend

holdup. im a surface guy. and have had some batteries for my cars and boats for years. ive purchased a few drones. havent flown them yet. are yall stating that i shouldnt expect the batteries i use in my drones for more than a year?

you csn get a pretty good reading when the quad is disarmed

Good video, but is okey to discharge all the battery?

Does this apply to Li-ion batteries as well? If not, what's the proper storage voltage for Li-ion batteries?

I think of it this way if you charge at twice the c rating you save time you could be using to make money to just simply buy more batteries

dont they still make those discharge alarms for like 3 dollars?

Does 3.25v destroy a lipo cell???

I had a 1300mah 6s battery charge to 1900mah with 26 volts motor caught fire big fire too crazy

Sorry for many question, but can i ask whatgopro you use?

Out of context question : Is it important to calibrate your charger ?

Ive been getting 3 to 5 years life on my Lipo batteries on average be keeping them fully charged in storage so all this hubub about storage charge being so critical and important is a bunch of bunk. just like the big Covid Scare Tactics!

Not all battery chargers actually store battery at right voltage for instance Traxxas live dual peak charger 3.9 volts Purcell for a $250 charger

can i ask how many lipo batteries you have?

I still need some advice on how to take care of my 1s lipos. I use them till my m6hd says land now at around 3.0, if I only use it till 3.5 the flight time will be few seconds. Now my batteries are gone, I cannot even roll as the power is not enough to push up again.

I have no way to check my battery voltage.

I let my 1s batteries fully charged in 3 months and they work perfectly fine and i still use them Edit: they are bad now 1 year later

I've been charging my 4s lipos to 14.8v because thats what it said on the packaging and stopping at 12v, no wonder they wont fly more than 30 seconds now LMAO

DJI JUST DO WHAT HE SAYS :)

that battery need olny about 8 hour

Lipo info also translates to cellphones. Don't let your battery drop below 20%.

Use only 60 percent of battery. Do not overcharge or over discharge.

Landing your batteries too early is also bad. I would suggest everyone to never land before at a crushing level they are at 3.7 per cell. Also you can calibrate your readings in betta flight to get a more precise reading. I’ve never done this but I’ve heard it’s the right thing to do and very simple too. Also, balance charging the at a low Amp rate is very important.

Canadian's eat Kirkland brand maple syrup??? well I'll be damned.

anyone else feels like he speaks in slow motion? sounds like 0.8 speed. I usually pump the video speed to 1.25

Thanks matt,,,,Are you guys tired of all these battery-related videos yet? Nope. Im totally new in Quad, in a process of customization to new comer spec, however im getting charger just like yours.

Hard to do with 6s, as those just freefall to nothing from 3.78 volts per cell! I always pretty much abuse cell voltage to 3.58 per cell, but they always charge backup and are no different! Fly it, abuse it!!

Lol... here after basically wasting a hundred bucks.... dang it.

13.8v? Your quad must not be calibrated.

Lipos can last you years. Not " well over a year "

honestly sounds like a huge pain in the ass

Why does he look and talk like Le Drib?