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Re: Backup Battery...Yay or Neh?

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

...it might be an easy thing to add a charge path from the main battery to the backup for charging and powering the servoes. Since the guys at IFI are really smart, I am betting they have already started working on this.

That assumes that they didn't do it on purpose. It is possible that they wanted to make sure folks used the backup battery and powering the servos via that battery was one way of encouraging us to do the right thing. It is also possible that they didn't want to pay for the higher cost of a higher current 5 Volt power supply on the RC.

Either way, I would not look for major changes to the RC next year. I have heard some rumblings about a new OI next year, but that could be just a rumor...

Joe J.

Re: Backup Battery...Yay or Neh?

Backup battery? What backup battery? The robot has two primary batteries!

Having the backup battery power the servos can be a very depressing thing for your team. 108, in our last match in chicago, finally got the robot up to the point where we attempted a hang. We managed to climb the platform (never before done properly) got up to the bar, and pulled ourselves down on it. The entire chicago regional was going nuts because they'd seen our problems all through competition and we'd finally been able to hang. Then power was cut, and we drifted back to the floor. :( We checked it out later, and found out the backup was dead, thus not firing the servo ratchet mechanism we had.

If it's to be called a backup battery, it should BE a backup battery. That's my 2cents at least.