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Re: New main battery connectors allowed
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Originally Posted by JDL
I didn't look at ours yet but the kids mentioned they were hard to get apart. If they are high force contacts they take about 15 foot pounds minimum to separate.
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Ours are definitely taking more than 15 foot-pounds of force! We've tried with all three combinations of pairs for the three cables that came in our KoP and they are all very difficult to get apart - way too difficult to separate in the typical confines of a robot. One pair we passed around at the meeting, and nobody could separate them by hand. It was like "The Sword in the Stone" with everybody thinking it should be easy to get them apart, but nobody could! (We did manage to separate them in a vice).
Maybe the contacts are made of uru?
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