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Unread 31-03-2005, 21:45
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Rookie Year: 2004
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Re: pic: 5 batteries?!

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Originally Posted by davelu
Well, our team have tried with three batterys! and once we shortciruted a batter and the end of the battery connector melted. It scared that crap out of me and i was blind of a sec.... oh, ever tried this having 3 batterys red to red to red and black to black to black? ha i bet not cuz someone suggested that if you do it like that it is gonna be a parallel connection... ya, we did that and you can just imagine what happend afterwards
Thats how we did our five, red to red to red to red to red and the same on black but as I learned dont touch the last red the same aluminum plate as the last black.......The more batteries the more possible current draw on a short..... Lots of sparks and small welding action. FUN. wait not so safe Oh well works great and lasts seemingly forever. Just take the last red and last black (or green in our case) and put them in a quick connect deal for the robot and works just like one super 12V battery that can supply in our case up to 5x more current

Last edited by Gentry : 31-03-2005 at 21:47.