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Originally Posted by dlavery
You did it every year - with the old control system. You may need to be careful about making any assumptions about the battery lifetime and total traverse distance with the new system. Unless I had run a few tests to understand the effects of the new control system on battery life when attempting extended driving, I would want to be rather cautious.
-dave
** although, this does cause one to think about a great idea for an alternate off-season competition - having a competition to see who can drive the longest / farthest with their official FRC robot on a single battery charge. How many laps can you do around an official 1/4-mile running track with one battery? What can you do to your drivetrains to make them as power-efficient as possible for this test (rather than as fast or as powerful as possible)? Given all the recent interest in "green" projects, this could be kind of interesting.
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We drove our robot for about 3 hours not stop last week Thursday at a demo on one battery. Granted we don't have lot on our robot that sucks power, like the compressor. We just drove around and shot/dumped balls on the floor. So i think you could probably run your parade but i don't know what your robot all entails this year.