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Re: Connecting battery & charger to PD board

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Originally Posted by Mr Roboto View Post
were not driving the bot. it is basically a static display. it is going to be roped off at the school running a loop that simply tilts the climbing arms (pneumatically) dwells, extends arms (CIM not under load) dwells, extends and dumps our disc bucket (pneumatically), etc. then dwells for about 5 minutes before it repeats again.
In that case, you should be fine changing the batteries every now and then. We get around 20 minutes of straight driving using a single battery on a 4 CIM drivetrain, and what you are doing draws much less current.