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Unread 04-01-2016, 22:13
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Re: 6 CIM robo-rio brown out

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
The maximum currents aren't the killer as much as the minimum voltage. If you draw extra amp-seconds to do your tasks, you will have a more drained battery that will be more likely to drop below brownout threshold when you make that big effort at the end (such as a climb, which has a favorite FIRST endgame, including this year's FTC). It is quite unlikely that inefficiency will contribute to the solution more than to the problem.
According to Kirchoff's "Voltage Law", both the instantaneous current (in Amps) and the cumulative drain on the battery (in Amp seconds) are significant when looking at brown-out and under-voltage conditions but in different ways.

It is not clear what inefficiency you are referring to in your last sentence.
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