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Re: Better Battaries for Driver Pratice

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Originally Posted by bensherman View Post
Chris, since FRC batteries never get down to 0v during competition (or practice), there's always some charge left on it, so it shouldn't take 3 hours to charge a battery that was normally used.
Batteries don't need to go down to 0v to be empty. Also by the same logic a half full 12v battery doesn't put out 6v. This isn't for the batteries we use but look at this chart for a conceptual example http://joe.lagrecafamily.com/wp-cont...voltchart1.gif .
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