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At the moment, unfortunately, no. General average is about 5 to 10 nodes.
The battery life makes more sense now. As the mesh grows, retransmission increases and therefore power consumption. Either way, the 10Ah Heltec would last the longest.
It's a portable device, so I always run mine in client mute, so it's not retransmitting other packets, because it's kind of pointless to do so with such a small antenna.
Oh yeah that also increases batt life.