Originally Posted by
DirkW
In which case you could also just use a LiFe battery (since you give away the LiPo's advantage of higher voltage anyway), with which you don't have to worry about charging it only half way each time (and keeping half of its capacity unused). Wouldn't call that
overthinking - just
thinking (which has never hurt anyone, by the way
).
A fine solution, if one has a spare 2s LiFe pack sitting around, but I don't think I'd buy a new pack just for this application.
I do more than enough thinking at my day job and as a parent of two young boys to realize that it does indeed hurt (some days more than others).