What’s the weight on the newest batteries?
Hello @Pdwhite
Based in Europe, Portugal, any news for future these batteries available around Europe?
Asking because from US to Portugal the custom fees will be something crazy 
When I say batteries, a conversion electric kit will be great also 
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Ya we do have a conversion kit here Electric Motor Conversion Kit SP140 V2 | OpenPPG
For the new battery, they should be shipping here in about 2 weeks. Send in an email to Info@openppg.com to get an estimate for customs costs.
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What does Canbus buy you?
Is it just that you need some way to talk to the BMS and this is what yours happens to provide, or is there some value to the whole CAN bus infrastructure, even for a vehicle with so few electronic gadgets?
(Battery, Motor, controller, ESC, throttle – am I missing any? Do any but the BMS and central controller actually use CAN?)
Yes it’s used for basic communication and that could be done with other methods like UART and right now there are really only 3 components that need to talk to each other the ESC, BMS and the hand controller.
So you might be able to get away with another communication method but once more battery packs are added in the system along with other systems it’s starts to be worth the extra complexity of CAN bus (UAVCan). So being able to update the ESC through the hand controller and also just moving away from PWM for throttle control and just doing all control through CAN makes the system more resilient to noise for increased reliability.
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Wanted to update this thread with the video of the new 4.8kWh battery real flight time test, which can be seen here-
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