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Originally Posted by Cory
The only thing a multimeter will tell you is voltage. You can charge a battery that is shot to 13V, but it could drop out on you 15s into the match. A multimeter won't catch that.
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This. I accidentally put a battery just like this in our robot in 2009, went from 13 to 7 volts after the match started (the battery had been killed by trying to test a motor that was shorted, and happened to find a way into the rotation of good ones).
You can ask Akash, we were allied with 11 in that match. There's nothing worse than losing a match because of an error.
Edit: I wish I had a battery beak, it would have prevented the mistake from ever happening. Reason being that the battery beak puts a load on the battery, so if it's actually dead, the beak will show it. Best. Tool. Ever. Wish they existed in '09