How to travel with large lipos...ship or fly???

[rb1kanobe]

We have a few Exotic 6 cell 22.2V, 22,000 mah batteries which I believe equates to 488 Wh and approximately 39 grams of lithium content per battery. TSA indicates I can't check or carry-on lipos of this size and FedEx appears to only allow ground shipment of lipos <300 Wh.

Anyone care to share how they are traveling with lipos over the 100 Wh...road trip???

 

[Old Man]

Anything 100 watt hours or more is limited to 1, carry on only in passenger commercial aircraft. You exceed that W/h limit with your batteries. Ship them.

 

[Av8Chuck]

I think the question is, how do you ship them? It would be great if people who travel with thier drones regularily would share who they do it.

Last place I traveled with a drone was Kenya and that was only with 4S 5000MaH batteries. How are people traveling with the much larger batteries available today?

 

[Old Man]

UPS has yet to put a limit on W/h for ground shipments, but you'll have to specify "Ground" to assure you did your due diligence. Boeing, IATA, and the NTSB have not made things easy for us.

Another option as time moves on is to arrange large W/h lipo packs as something like 6s-2p where you have a couple of 5k-8k-10k batteries set up in parallel that separate for shipping. Just separate the connectors, cap the connectors to meet the protected terminal requirements, and go. As an example, instead of a single 10K-16k mAh battery you then have two batteries with half the W/h at 5k and 8k respectively.