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Re: Rules Change I Would Like to See - Batteries

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Originally Posted by ASD20 View Post
Ok, I do agree a separate power source will limit the impact a brownout will have on your robot, but I am still of the belief that designing to avoid brownouts is just part of the game and that FRC should solve the actual problem by better educating teams on power consumption, rather than just helping one of the symptoms.
While it is certainly part of the current rules and you have to allow for it...
My opinion is it would be a better game if you didn't have to deal with controls brown out as it is now. As a complete tangent, an industrial design that had these issues would either separate control & power energy or make the energy source big enough so that is wasn't a issue.

With the current rules, a super capacitor would likely make the robot fail the power off test on the robot inspection check list.
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