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Re: Motors/Battery life

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Originally Posted by eugenebrooks
Al, I beg to differ...

We compared the capacity of the then new EX battery to year old ES batteries last year, and found the year old batteries to have 50% more capacity at a constant current 20 amp load. This year's milage may vary, but the batteries were quite different in performance when checked last year.

Eugene
There is another possibility. When we did some tests a few years ago, we found significant variation from battery to battery even among those that are nominally the same model number.

While I don't think that it is likely to be the factor that moves a robot from good to great, using the "good" batteries over the "medium" ones can't hurt.

Joe J.
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