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Originally Posted by CmptrGk
it depends on the weight of the battery. i do not know the weight of this years batterys, lets say for thid 12-14 lbs. now take 12-14 away from 130 and you get 118 or 116. now it seems to me, if these are the correct weights for the batteries, that there was an increase of 2-4 lbs on the robot. but again, i do not know the weight of this years batteries. so my hypothesis may be completly flawed.
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My read on why they did this was due to the variations in battery weight.
We have 4 batteries that the scale at competition measured them from 12.4 to 13.6 pounds. All have about the same amount of wire on them. This also removes any of the very bad, "I heard about some team that weighed with a hollow battery." Everybody needs a battery to move most other things in the KOP don't have that kind of mass variation. Just my two cents Biff