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Re: Powered Robot Carts

We'll get some pics up eventually, once it doesn't look like a big heap of steel welded to an electric wheelchair with some IFI electronics stuck on.

To avoid the battery issue its got twin big 12V batteries in parallel (sorry, I don't know the specs on them, but each one is about 4x the size of the KOP batteries), hooked up to an onboard charger which will (hopefully) have a spring loaded spool of wire attached, allowing us a retractable charging cable, much like your electric vaccuum cleaner at home. We drove it probably a total of about 22,000 ft this past weekend without charging it, and the batteries only lost about 0.2V under load. I was thoroughly impressed.

EDIT: Also, I think we will likely bring our trusty man-powered cart with us, since we CAN run with it to make those last minute matches, and our motorized cart can't go faster than a brisk walk.

Last edited by Racer26 : 12-02-2008 at 00:53.
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