Fuel Cell UAV - Hydrogen Fuel Cell Test 1

This test includes our initial tests of the Horizon PEM-200 fuel cell in an R/C environment. The fuel cell itself powers the motor entirely as well as the onboard e-Logger and it's respective components. The receiver and servo's are powered separately on LiFe batteries to ensure that we always have control in the case that the Fuel Cell becomes overloaded and shuts off (occurs between 250 & 300 Watts). Hydrogen is stored in a paintball tank at 2000 psi, which gives us an estimated 70 minutes of flight.

Next tests will include final flight on battery with mock weights to depict actual flight conditions, and finally a full hour of hydrogen powered flight.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• fuel
• cell
• ucf
• uav
• rc
• plane
• hydrogen
• flight
• test
• taxi
• aircraft
• pem
• horizon