Lithion-Ion Batteries

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by ToddF

Hijacking your thread: If FIRST were to take any technology from the RC world, I'd kill to be allowed to use brushless motors and ESCs in our robots. We could keep the expensive Jags and Victors to drive the CIMs for driving, if we had to. But, we would get tons better performance at a fraction of the cost if we could use brushless motors and ESCs. There is a good reason why nearly the entire RC world has made the transition to brushless.

Keep in mind that the RC world deals with vehicles that are a few pounds or less, thus the motors do not draw as much current overall. This alone leads to a less expensive motor controller.