Battery life?

[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...