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Re: Robot Controller
Posted by Mike Dubreuil.

Student on team #175, Buzz, from Enrico Fermi High School and UTC/Hamilton Sundstrand.

Posted on 1/30/2000 4:35 PM MST


In Reply to: Robot Controller posted by Mckinley on 1/30/2000 4:08 PM MST:



As a good rule of thumb you should have a fresh battery before each match.
You have an LCD display and a 'select' button on your operator interface. The LCD display is used to show you 3 pieces of information: your team number, the channel you are running on , and the voltage of your battery. By pressing the select button you can access each piece of information. Your voltage should be around 12 volts. It is common for the voltage to drop sharply during robot use because of motors pulling a lot of juice.
You could also just use a multi-meter to monitor the battery voltage.
- Mike
Team # 175


: Hi, we were wondering if any of the other teams out there is experiencing the same problem that we have. Our problem is that on the robot controller, the low battery light goes on for a few minutes, the it goes off, and then back on again. So how are we supose to know when our battery is low?


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