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Originally Posted by GeeTwo
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.
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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.