In order to check battery status or remaining flight time, the pilot must understand how to gauge
remaining flight time.
1. Battery Voltage will fluctuate between 50 and 42 Volts
a. Full Battery = 50 Volts
b. Empty Battery = 42 Volts
Batteries used for drones are typically built as Lithium Polymer batteries and have an exponential
depletion. Drone batteries typically operate between 100 to 30%, below a particular percentage or
voltage, batteries will lose power exponentially and cause a crash.
In order to determine available flight time, pilots will have to keep an eye on battery voltage during the
flight.
Battery Warning Light
The Lucid C1 drone offers a battery status light. This battery warning light will begin to flash when
battery voltage has been depleted to 42 volts.
The battery warning light is powered by the balance wires from your drone batteries. The small voltage
will power the battery lights and begin to flash as the batteries deplete.
When the battery warning lights flash, it is time to land the aircraft to avoid a crash.
Continuing to fly when the battery warning light strobes can lead to permanent damage to
the aircraft and the batteries.
When installing the batteries prior to a flight, ensure that main power cables are plugged
into the corresponding connector with the correct orientation. Ie. Red Wires connect to
corresponding red wires. Do not cross the wires, as doing so will create a short circuit and
damage the batteries and aircraft.
Battery Fail Safe:
After the battery warning light has begun to strobe, the Pilot will have approximately 2 minutes to land.
Following the 2 minutes, the battery fail safe and will trigger and begin the auto-landing procedure.
When the fail safe is activated, the drone will begin to descend…commencing the auto landing feature.
Pilots will not have control of altitude. Pilots can nudge the aircraft with the roll inputs and pitch
inputs. This way the pilot can still control where the aircraft lands.
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