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Re: Backup battery will not power RC
Earlier today or late last night close enough to each other, I updated the firmware on our RC. I charged the backup battery a couple days ago and have been running it with a 12 volt jump pack running the robot electronics and testing the camera. today while just letting it run ( at least an hour) with the camera connected and a servo on the camera and 2 speed controllers and a relay all connected running properly and I had the dashboard viewer running. I watched the main battery fluctuate between 12.6 and 12.2 as I tested controls and watched the backup battery slowly die off fairly slowly. I walked away a few minutes and came back and saw the red light on the RC saying dead/low battery. Checking the Dashboard Viewer indeed it was dead, showed around 3 or 4 volts. I would have to say that the problem anyone would be having is simply a dead or low or disconnected.

And yes the RC does turn off after a couple seconds of only on backup, to save battery power.

just my little bit of experience

-Mike