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Originally Posted by Tom Line
I haven't seen this communicated on Chief Delphi yet, so I wanted to get this out there.
I know of three teams this weekend that had a cell/cells in their batteries die.
The battery appears to be fully charged, but when you put it on the bot it drops to 6-7 volts (or lower) very quickly. It killed a match for us, and two other teams we talked to have also had issues with the 2008 batteries dying on them.
Let's get a record going - if these batteries are indeed an issue as I believe they are, we need to get word to First so they can rectify the issue. That is a lot of money to spend on batteries only to have them die in less than a year. We've still got 2006 batteries (from the old manufacturer) that are working!
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At the beginning of the build season, the TechnoKats tested everyone of our batteries from previous years and from this year, and the ones from this year had mid to low range on them. I found this weird as we have batteries dating back to 2001 and we have never had problems with them. Also when we did the test, last years were the strongest! That was shocking to me that 1 year old batteries were stronger than new batteries from the same manufacturer.