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Originally Posted by ebarker
We use this charger. It charges 10 batteries at a time, at a sweet 2 amp rate. Keeps them in good shape.
http://batterytender.com/telecomm-st...12v-at-2a.html
You are much better off buying more batteries and charging them at the ideal rate rather than destroying batteries and creating safety hazards from ruptured batteries.
BTW - on a related subject everyone should replace the alligator clips on their chargers and use Anderson SB connectors to plug into the battery. |
This is what our battery cart uses. We have not had a problem with the tender. We also put the Anderson connectors on each of the ten chargers. The chargers each have their own fuse and break away point(just a bit past where the Anderson connectors/alligator clips are) which makes them really easy to take out of the cart. Since there is ten(admittedly not the fastest charger) you can go through a whole regional qualifiers with charged batteries and the ones from your first matches have had a day to charge. or quantity over speed.
Even with extra tournament tiebreakers our robot has had a fresh battery and never ran out of juice. Pit crew remembering to zip tie the connectors together is an entirely different issue