10-07-2009, 21:32
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Jim Zondag is my Spirit Animal
 FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Manchester, Connecticut
Posts: 7,007
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Re: 2009 Finger Lakes Regional!!!!
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Originally Posted by Nick Lawrence
*topic revival*
We finally did figure out what the problem was at FLR, and a good portion of GTR.
We had a bad battery, internally. Either a plate was shifted, cracked, or something, because under short loads, it was fine. All the connections on the robot, and even to the battery were perfect. But once a load was put on it for a longer period of time, it would simply die. We kept using this battery, because it was the best one we had, according to our "short period" tester.
What's ironic about this, is that we named all our batteries after X-Men. It's funny, that this battery was named "Jean Grey."
Jean has been decomissioned.
It wasn't a field problem, it was just coincidental that it was the same driver's station that we were at that had problems. I felt like I needed to give this some closure, because it bit us at GTR too.
-Nick
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Nick, was it one of the old 07 batteries or even 08?
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