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Originally Posted by dlavery
** 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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http://www.cef-trek.org/Home.html might be of some interest then. I know that Pontiac Northern High School has a team (there are others around here I just don't know anyone on them) It forces you to take into consideration a lot more real world engineering than you do in FRC. Just an interesting experience.
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