Hi Guys!
This week Holger wrote a request in the Mikrokopter forum for a tool to calculate the flight time of a Mikrokopter based on basic parameters:
- Thrust curve of a Motor (grams over current)
- Number of Motors
- Mikrokopter Weight without Lipo
- Lipo Weight
- Lipo Capacity
- Payload
- Losses
- LipoFactor (g per mAh – typical 50-100 g/Ah) – Here is also a nice List from Nabazul from the MK-Forum
With this data it is possible to calculate the flight time.
Also I created very interesting plots of flight time over Lipo capacity and flight time over payload. (It would also be possible to creat a 3D plot with both parameters)
I decided to make the calculation with a little Matlab script (M-File) that you can download here.
» Read more: Flight Time Calculation for Mikrokopters using Matlab
