Thread: Legality of running a capacitor inline with roboRIO power
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Re: Legality of running a capacitor inline with roboRIO power
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Originally Posted by ImOn3618 View Post
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.
Beyond just charging them, do you do any tests on them to gauge the batteries overall health?
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