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Re: Dead battery!

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Originally Posted by Burne S
Question: Our team kinda lost (As in completely drained) a battery over the course of testing. We've tried almost every suggested place on the site, but nothing worked.

We need replacements and spares. Where might we find FIRST competition-legal batteries?
~Burne
If you read a bit farther back, you'll notice that ahecht said that a sealed Lead Acid battery (the kind we use) will be trashed if voltage goes too low. That tallies with my own knowlege of SLAs, and I think others would agree. In short, I think that you guys are sunk. Look around for other batteries, or maybe contact FIRST.

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ICs do weird things when voltage is run out of spec.

I love to take things apart. The fact that they work better when I put them back together it just a bonus.

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