[RyanN]

At this point, I don't think you can get a replacement. You'll probably just have to lick your wounds (but not the battery juices), and buy another one.

I'm kind of curious as to how many of the older veteran teams dislikes the new batteries.

Back in my days, we used Exide batteries, and we never had a single failure.

Now, we have these new pieces of crap. We bought probably 10 batteries over the past 2 years, and 7 of them are completely bad.

Some have infinite resistance (they say their charged, but produce no current to even power up the cRIO), or have a really high resistance (they say their charged, but when connected to the robot, cannot run a motor without the Jaguars faulting out). Others develop a crack on the bottom (really thin plastic, so without being treated like an egg, they will crack). We had one that popped its cap on the top, which isn't supposed to ever happen.

I personally want FIRST to go back with the old Exide batteries, or switch to a more reputable battery company. We still have some Exides that work well on demo boards.

The MK batteries weren't too bad in 2008, but the Enersys ones that everyone uses now are awful in my opinion.