Battery life?

[Cory]

This thread has strayed from the OP's intent, but we buy 10 new batteries every year. We put so many hours on them throughout the season that they inevitably end up not being as good as new ones. We practice during the current year with the previous year's batteries. We never use a battery in a match more than once. We won't even use a battery that's been on the bot in the pit for system checks/testing.

You can never have too many batteries or be too careful with them. It is the most critical part on your robot.

On topic, matches will not get any longer unless more than 6 teams are on the field at once. Just won't happen from a scheduling standpoint.

[Don Wright]

We tell Gail at the beginning of the season "We need enough batteries for the season." and so she orders 110 so we never have to use a battery twice...

Just kidding...

Like Cory, we order a new set of 12 every season and use them only at competitions, never back to back (usually only once per day or twice at the most for each competition).

We use the previous year's batteries for practice and still swap after each practice match...

The 2 year old and older batteries are for the scrapbots that we use for defense practice...

As for how long...depends on a lot of things... Our 2006 robot used 10 motors I think including several that ran almost all the time (two big CIMs, two FP's), 4 little CIMs in the drive, and two bane bots plus the pump and we would almost kill the battery in 2 minutes...

[bduddy]

Originally Posted by Cory

On topic, matches will not get any longer unless more than 6 teams are on the field at once. Just won't happen from a scheduling standpoint.

I was actually thinking about 4v4 with one robot off the field in a "pit area", and something like :30 + 4:00 . From this topic, it sounds like the batteries could likely last for that long...