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Originally Posted by srippetoe
The standard battery is no match for the 2.5 miles in 45 minutes.
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When we did our Memorial Day Parades back in May (they were each a little less than 1.5 miles IIRC), we used a Y-cable to greatly quicken battery changes, so that our robot only had to be stopped for <20 seconds during a change:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hallry
We have a Y-shaped anderson connector that we used. It looks like the one on the left side of the picture below, but is longer:
We had one end hooked up to the robot, the other to the battery in the robot, and when we swap batteries, we hook up the free end to the new battery before disconnecting the old one, so the robot never turned off. |
(Taken from this thread)
You can see it in action
here; I think the first battery change happens at about 16:53.
Just a suggestion if the marching teams are interested, although I'll bet the FRC World Champions and Hall of Fame team already have a solution worked out.
. Can't wait to see 1538 and 1477 on Fox and Friends tomorrow morning, and then all 5 teams leading the parade on Thursday!