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Originally Posted by BeckonedCall
Being a driver myself, I can understand wanting to automate as much as you can. I can only imagine that leaving the intake on must have drained the battery. Did you ever have issues with brown out or severe voltage drops during competitions?
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Originally Posted by DonorConohue
Very rarely. The intake was run by a single minicim.
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Just to elaborate, the intake isn't under much load when it's running and not actively picking up a ball, so it's current draw is close to the
3A free current of a miniCIM. (Actually, because we're not running it at 12V, it could be less). This current draw of the intake is dwarfed by the amout of current that the drivetrain, or even the compressor would be drawing.
In a two and a half minute match, really the only way to drain a battery is to repeatedly stall a motor. Brown outs and voltage drops also happen when there's a big spike in current draw (like when a 6 CIM drive gets into a pushing match), a small motor pulling ~3A wouldn't cause those things.