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Originally Posted by ratdude747
Not really, you make the controller part of the pack, just like with laptop packs and the like. Even add a push button charge indicator for extra functionality at a low marginal cost. The hardest part would be the current sense circuit, as we're talking pretty high peak currents compared to most packs. Not to say it's not doable (it almost certainly is), but it would take a corporate partnership for this to happen in FRC. Unless somebody already makes rated packs with a sufficiently robust casing, in which case, half the work is done.
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The primary issue is a sufficiently robust casing is it would have to be built out of metal (work experience). Then again, I also have a different view on what I consider safe with regards to batteries since we sometimes do our penetration testing with bullets (conventional workplace hazard).
I am seeing integrated controllers as pretty common and one option a number of them do provide is current charge limiting. Some of the options allow you to provide the battery a straight 14.4 volts and the battery will current limit to whatever is programmed.