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Consumer Drone Battery Watt-Hours

Name: Consumer Drone Battery Watt-Hours
Creator: Drone Authority
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Watt-hour ratings, capacity, and nominal voltage for every battery the manufacturer sells for popular consumer drones, with the U.S. FAA passenger band for each pack and the manufacturer specification URL. Free, openly licensed, no signup.

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Records: 41
Formats: CSV · JSON
Last updated: September 25, 2026

License: CC BY 4.0

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Fields

aircraft_slug: Stable aircraft identifier.
brand: Manufacturer.
aircraft: Aircraft model.
battery: Battery name as the manufacturer lists it.
watt_hours: Energy in Wh.
watt_hours_computed: True when the maker does not state Wh and the value is capacity times nominal voltage.
capacity_mah: Capacity in mAh.
nominal_voltage_v: Nominal voltage.
weight_g: Battery weight in grams, when stated.
faa_band: no-approval (100 Wh or less), airline-approval (101 to 160 Wh), or forbidden (over 160 Wh).
source_url: Manufacturer specification page the figure was read from.
source_license: CSV only. Constant, so the license survives a copy-paste of the rows.

How it was built

Figures come only from manufacturer specification pages. DJI serves spec pages by region and hides models it does not sell in a country, so some DJI URLs were read on DJI's UK site and may redirect for U.S. visitors. FAA bands follow FAA PackSafe for passengers.

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