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Re: Legality of running a capacitor inline with roboRIO power

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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur View Post

I suspect that your battery is low and you are using a high traction drive train with an incorrect gear ratio.
We have a rigorous standard for competition batteries, and start each machine with a fresh, fully charged battery, so I doubt that's the issue.

However, we have a very high traction drive train (brecoflex treads with about a 1.5 CoF, 750ish N force of kinetic friction while driving). The gear ratio on the drive belts is 14.2:1 using RAWboxes. While the drive train definitely contributes to our issue, there's not much we can do about it with 6hours of unbag time.
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