
03-04-2011, 22:28
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Steel is love. Steel is life.
AKA: Kara Bakowski
 FRC #0341 (Miss Daisy)
Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Rookie Year: 2008
Location: Conshohocken, PA
Posts: 1,855
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Re: Tools you can't live without
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Originally Posted by jdunston94
load tester.
As soon as you start having matches where you cant charge a battery fully in between you want to be using a load tester and even if it is a full battery, says the charger it might not be good enough under load.
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And buy additional batteries along with the load tester. We cycled through 6 batteries at our competitions this year, which seemed to be a good number. Having 6 new batteries is significantly less stressful than having 6 that are a few years old.
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Michigan Technological University///Materials Science and Engineering '15///Go Huskies! #tenacity
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FRC 1189 (2008-2011): Team Captain, Pit Crew, Website group leader, Team Education group leader, Proud Alum. We've got spirit, yes we do...
 
 
WMWBS '10 '11
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