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Re: Cimple Boxes

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Originally Posted by slijin View Post
This is also indicative of a battery problem. Measure the battery voltage under a load and see what it reads.
not necessarily the internal Resistance of the battery is pretty high in 2009 our bot operated at 8.5 volts dropping to 7.5 when we started shooting on a fully charged battery
if you have a high enough load and enough motors going the voltage can and will drop below 7 volts on a good battery.
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