Hi All,
I am doing some research and design that I could create a protoytpe for motor that has capacity to trickle charge back the battery while in flight.

or at least help to power up subsystem on the P3 to release some load on the main battery (like LED LIGHTs... or GPS system)

NOt sure if this is being pursued by any company now.....

???

There is no such thing as 'free' energy.  The motors are turning the props.  The battery is being drained to turn the motors...   you can't get any advantage by 'generating' energy from the  props to put back into anything, it'll just flatten the batter quicker, as it will introduce load to the system...

Why not just get flexible solar panels and cover the whole top with it...

venomx15301 Posted at 2015-7-9 19:38
Why not just get flexible solar panels and cover the whole top with it...

Attach your Phantom to your bicycle. Of course, the bicycle must have one of those USB power hubs so you can draw power. Oh yeah, you're also going to need someone to pedal the bike!

Fly? You want it to fly while we're charging it?

Sorry but there is no conceivable way you could efficiently use a motor to trickle charge the battery that would not trade off badly in terms of added weight (which would reduce flying time and negate the benefits of this system), if this were a plane you could use the real life equivalent and drop a turbine out of the fuselage and glide this is not a plane though, it has no gliding ability (other than the CSC induced vertical one )

If you pull really hard on your shoe laces you can lift yourself off the ground and fly too...
(This is what happens when we stop teaching science in schools.)

Despite all the put downs on your idea, good on you for thinking about this. Some of the best ideas that have literally changed the world were met with storms of cynicism. Some of the replies posted here are constructive, others not. It's not difficult to see which are useful to you. Good luck.

+1^^^^^^^^^^^

And I was serious. They are making panels smaller and smaller every few months.

Fulgerite Posted at 2015-7-9 22:39
If you pull really hard on your shoe laces you can lift yourself off the ground and fly too...
(This ...

Thanks….I just pulled a muscle laughing

Like I said...   This is what happens when we stop teaching science and physics in schools.

I read somewhere that in a few years there will be drones that utilize multiple batteries and each motor will have a small generator inside it and will charge the battery not being used and when the battery being used runs low the copter will switch to the other battery which was being charged earlier and so on. Interesting ideas.

Fulgerite Posted at 2015-7-9 22:39
If you pull really hard on your shoe laces you can lift yourself off the ground and fly too...
(This ...

So E=mc2 will not work

uhayat@hotmail. Posted at 2015-7-10 07:44
I read somewhere that in a few years there will be drones that utilize multiple batteries and each m ...

This is what happens when we stop teaching science and physics in school.

People believe such things are possible.

Thanks for comments (bad or funny).... I worked for avionics for 5 yrs, and the plane engine when utilized is the one generating power on the plane...  

Just wondering if the moving prop can AT LEAST power up less power hungry systems like the LED, GPS sytems etc..  you just need to install a new motor with resolver windings for the output...or an effeiceint micro transformer to generate potential.

SectorDrone Posted at 2015-7-10 09:45
Thanks for comments (bad or funny).... I worked for avionics for 5 yrs, and the plane engine when ut ...

Same like braking generators in hybrid cars, it is possible and I think it's being used in top secret projects which we might see 20 years from now.