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Originally Posted by team1165wins
I am changing my design a bit. We want our laptop to be able to come off the cart, so I thought of designing a docking station. Are supercapacitors allowed in the driver station? They could probably hold power for use in a little time, and they would charge in no time! Also, I am thinking of dropping the idea of to car battery. Something safer might be better. Also, the team doesn't want the two CIMs because of safety issues. That means that a 6.6 volt LiFePO4 battery at 5000 mAH should suffice. I am expecting the control panel to draw a maximum of 500 mAH, monitoring all batteries, highest PLL and display on highest brightness. BTW, if anyone has been on my website, http://devstuff.no-ip.info, please tell me any concerns or ideas for my 'advanced driver station'. Also, does anyone know how to model a hinge in inventor? I want the drive station to have a little of stashing space! |
Regardless of legality in FRC:
Per the other topic where I mentioned supercapacitors please be sure to consider internal resistance when you consider this.
The better capacitors from DigiKey are much lower ESR.
Also along with that 'charging in no time' consider what your in-rush currents will actually be for whatever large capacitance you are considering.
I'm still not quite sure what you are powering with all this.
Netbooks and laptops generally have internal batteries.