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Originally Posted by AdamHeard
Some teams design systems that are very overpowered, but purposefully so, for a large performance benefit.
I know teams with high capacity and fast dumpers in 09 like us and 254 used some serious battery when scoring, but it was worth it for the speed of scoring.
Also, gearing for 17 fps or so in drive results in some real performance gains if the driver can handle it, but consequently you're using a lot more battery.
We're not draining a battery per match, we make sure of that much, but we're not getting 20 minutes out of a battery.
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Consider that elite powerhouses understand this up front, and use it as a tradeoff when making both design and pre-season purchase decisions. <Insert random young team here> usually doesn't understand that tradeoff during these types of decisions -- so it's important that you put the reasoning in with your explanation of "yes, we use 10 batteries". Otherwise, just like monkeys in a corporation, it's very easy for people [teams] to lose the understanding of why things work the way they do.