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AKA: Robert Dudek
FRC #1777 (Viking Robotics)
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Overland Park, Kansas
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Re: Battery powered DS help

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Since both the Driver Station and the Linksys WRT610N router are customarily powered by 12 volts DC, why get fancy? Just use a robot battery wired to a couple of Size M power connectors and be done with it.
Thats exactly what our team members did, they used a previous years battery and hooked it up with quick disconnects.

Our team was at the public library recently for a Science Night, where we ran the robot for over 2 hours constantly. We had to change out the robot battery every fifteen minutes, but the Driver Station battery lasted all evening long.
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