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Re: [FTC]: [FTC] Samantha and batteries

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Matrix's dedicated battery pack is the greatest perk I've seen in Matrix so far. I just wish the FCS got updated so it would learn this.
I agree, if Tetrix robots were also allowed to run a separate battery for the Samantha.
This is kinda funny. From the Matrix end of the stick, we (our team at least) have been seeing the separate 9V battery as a liability as we have been obliged to use the rectangular 9V batteries that go flat very quickly and are expensive.

Based on the argument from HiTechnic which is not at all concerned with the functioning of the Samantha but on the potential to damage the NXT, it should be easy to argue that the same option (separate battery) should exist for Tetrix as well.

It has baffled me as to why the rules insist on these really heavy duty battery wires to the Samantha <R10.d.ii> when the wires supplied with battery box for our Samantha were no where near that size and the internal components of the Samantha are relatively low current. Maybe that mystery has been unraveled as well - those wires were expected to handle back-door motor currents.
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