Re: Which Battery to Buy?
 

One thing we've drilled our students on is that once a battery comes off the robot, it goes directly on the charger unless no spot is available. We ensure this happens everywhere. One of the things we use as a very simple reason for this is "We do not want to run out of fully charged batteries in the Finals". They seem to understand this.

Now to finish getting them to all understand not to pull on the wires to disconnect them or lift batteries by them.

Re: Which Battery to Buy?
 

[quote=cgmv123;1434755]I wouldn't call the Battery Beak "very inaccurate". Of course the CBA is a better test, but the Battery Beak is accurate enough for its purpose, which is to quickly determine the state of batteries at competition./QUOTE]
It works some of the time. I may of accidentally chose poor words. But to prove my point, while testing we have nothing but "good" batteries according to the beak and a few "fairs". Some of the "fairs" actually tested twice as well as the "good" batteries. Some of the "good" batteries that tested great on the beak lasted for four minutes on the CBA and absolutely tanked which is a disaster in a competition. All I'm saying is don't put 100% faith in the beak because you never know if it is actually good or not.

Re: Which Battery to Buy?
 

http://www.westmountainradio.com/cba.php

We have the CBA III, the IV, and the CBA amplifier. Quite expensive but great testing in a fairly short time.