Discharge Performance

FlightPower Discharge Performance

Discharge Performance. Pictured left is the Enerland discharge curve for the this cell type created using an Arbin Instruments industrial battery tester. The practical outcome is extremely high voltage held under load which means that when more Amps are drawn at high throttle more Watts are delivered (instead of the volts dropping away). Amps x Volts = power in Watts. The FlightPower EVO 20 manufacturing process has been designed with the RC user in mind to ensure that packs created from multiple cells are able to hit the target of multiples of the voltage performance seen here. Accurate cell matching during manufacture and low resistance joints are the key to achieving this and verification has taken the form of high-discharge load tests using brushless motor loads as well as numerous independent flight tests by world-famous pilots and the testing houses of large distributors, all of which have confirming that the EVO 20 product is a performance leader in a class of its own.

In common with other reputable makes of RC battery, the continuous C-rating of "20 C" applied to the EVO 20 line is a measure of the maximum continuous current drawn before the pack will suffer excessive wear, however depending on the brand, the definition of excessive wear can be unclear and can range from immediate damage to a number of cycles. In the case of FlightPower EVO 20 we estimate 50 charge and discharge cycles using a 20C motor and prop/EDF load under a 1 C charging regime and have satisfied ourselves in testing that we can exceed this in real life. The vast majority of RC applications use a great variety of throttle demands during discharge therefore the purpose of selecting a 20C EVO 20 battery pack is to ensure an exciting throttle response is available upon demand.