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Originally Posted by ChuckDickerson
Do you typically run a fresh fully charged battery at the beginning of each match or is it possible the batteries had been used in one or more matches previously?
Our team rule is one match per battery per day. We put a freshly topped off battery in the bot at the start of every match and don't use it again that day if we can avoid it.
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This was in 2009, during Lunacy.
We DID use a fresh battery every match, and still do.
One aspect that drained our battery, we had 2 large fans on the back of our robot. If we got into a pushing match (which, in lunacy, happened a LOT. And pushing matches draw a lot of current from the CIM motors), we would activate both of our rear fans, at 100% throttle, which caused a HUGE drain on the battery. However, it almost always would win the pushing match...