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Re: 2015 Beta Testing - The Components are Here.

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Originally Posted by Tom Line View Post
Of course, I'll point out that this was happening at very low voltages. We were seeing 6ish volts. We NEVER pull a battery that low during competition, and with the new current monitoring features in the PDB, we hope to monitor and control voltage and current as a safeguard against popping the main breaker as well.
I have regularly seen (a couple times a match) 5.5 volts for short periods of time on both 254 and 971's bots over the last couple years. We ran into issues with the 5.5 volt dropout on the old system.
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