Cheap RC chopper runtime enhancements?

[ferrisbueller]

Friend's son was bought a cheap little RC copter for Christmas. It flies well enough but only has enough juice in the battery for two minutes of proper flying, after which it struggles to get off the deck. It recharges off the handset so we're talking miserly amounts of capacity. Anyone know of any lightweight, higher capacity batteries I could graft in to it for him or is it just a question of it being a naff product (30 quid gadget shop job).

[Conian]

that sounds crap, i had one that went for 15 mins minimum

[dr_gn]

ferrisbueller said:

Friend's son was bought a cheap little RC copter for Christmas. It flies well enough but only has enough juice in the battery for two minutes of proper flying, after which it struggles to get off the deck. It recharges off the handset so we're talking miserly amounts of capacity. Anyone know of any lightweight, higher capacity batteries I could graft in to it for him or is it just a question of it being a naff product (30 quid gadget shop job).

Have a look here:

http://www.indoorflyer.co.uk/single-cells-111-c.as...

If it's a PicooZ hybrid, they used to do upgrades like tiny ball bearings for the rotor head as well.

[steveo3002]

have you tried decent batterys in the handset , i had one and cheapies made it fly for like 2 mins

a replacement battery will probably cost near what a better heli will cost , can get the picos for 15-20

[ferrisbueller]

http://www.hawkin.com/20670-12953/remote-control-e...

I think it's this one.