Thread: 12 Volt Battery Substitute
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Re: 12 Volt Battery Substitute
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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
You can just get a smaller SLA with less capacity, similar to this. Upside is you can charge it with your robot's charger. If you have an electronics surplus store somewhere near you, they're almost certain to have something like this in stock.
Unless you have one of the old exide 2A chargers or the 1-year 1A charger, I would be very careful about this. I'm pretty doubtful that any SLA smaller than our robot batteries is rated for a 6A charging current.
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