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Drone toys have short battery lives because of the
energy
required to keep them aloft. Lighter-than-air devices
seem to
make sense to address this, and that's probably a big
reason
why helium drone toys are baked (although
unfortunately
uncommon). Helium is expensive, though, and such
toys
either require the user to get their device filled from a
third-
party vendor or deal with the complications of getting
helium
shipped with the toy. Proposed is a drone toy that
includes a
water electrolysis kit so the end user can fill or refill the
air
chamber with hydrogen. The gas needn't ever be
compressed
very much at all.
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The excitement factor is going to drop if a blimp is attached
to those racing drones. Although, birds do have hollow
bones for weight reduction. |
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// The gas needn't ever be compressed very much at all. // |
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The whole point is that , unless required to maintain structural integrity i.e. a blimp, the gas is at atmospheric pressure; that's certainly the case in a classic dirigible. |
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[8th], if you //fill or refill// the zep //at atmospheric pressure//, you'd
need to be rather patient, no? It doesn't need to be pressurized in the
gas bag, but your filler bottle would probably want at least a couple of
PSIG. |
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The storage containers would be HP, but the pressure difference to get the gas into a bag need only be a few Pascals. Zepp bags were "atmospheric" and indeed had vent valves, so that if the ship rose above its pressure altitude, the gas could vent to prevent bursting. |
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If the "Low Hydrogen" status light comes on when the wall-wart is plugged in to recharge the batteries, inject a cc or so of water into the H2O port. |
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