🔋 DroneLog · battery records
Track every LiPo's charge cycles before it lets you down
LiPo and Li-ion drone batteries don't last forever — they wear out by charge cycle. A typical pack is rated for a few hundred cycles, and as it ages it puffs, sags under load, and loses flight time. The single best way to avoid an in-flight battery failure is simple: know how many cycles each pack has been through, and retire it before it becomes unreliable. The problem is that nobody remembers cycle counts in their head across a bag full of identical-looking packs.
Open DroneLog — free →How DroneLog tracks battery health
- 🔋 Add each pack with a label and capacity (mAh)
- 🔁 Every flight you log against a battery adds one charge cycle — automatically
- 📉 A simple health estimate compares cycles used against the pack's rated cycles
- ⚠️ Packs nearing their rated life are flagged so you can rotate or retire them
- ➕ Manually bump a cycle for charges that weren't a logged flight
Pair this with a proper drone flight log and your batteries stay honest: the same tap that records a flight also advances that battery's odometer. No spreadsheet, no guesswork, no taping cycle counts to the side of each pack. When a battery's health drops, you'll know it's time for a new one — on the bench, not at 300 feet.