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Unread 22-02-2012, 10:24
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Re: "Quotes" that were said during build season

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Originally Posted by fb39ca4 View Post
We needed a battery to test a motor, and two people brought two batteries. Instead of plugging in one of the batteries to the test Jaguar, someone inadvertently plugged both of the batteries into each other D: D: D: Luckily, someone else noticed a fraction of a second later, and promptly unplugged the leads before any damage was done. Moral of the story: "One table, one battery."
I did this earlier this season. I remember saying "I did the thing a robot student has always feared, and absolutely nothing happened." Really, absolutely nothing happened. When you connect two batteries together like that, the positive is going to the positive and the negative to the negative. No explosion, just an equalization of power. If it were the other way, then problems would occur. But it isn't!
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