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Re: SD540 Motor Controller

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Originally Posted by pnitin View Post
If you are letting down your battery 9.5 V your are basically killing your battery( actually 10.8V that is 1.8V per cell).
Lead-Acid battery will quickly built lead sulfide layers on plates ( no matter what is battery technology and what manufacturer claims)
you are basically screwing up battery and now it will have much high internal resistance so the you will start seeing voltage drop when you try to take out good amount of current.
Don't think I've seen a robot get through a match without dipping that low in their battery voltage.
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