Our first climb and dump of the season!

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by Bill_B

If you're really lucky, you might be able to get that battery back into effective status, if you put it onto a charger very soon after taking it out of the robot. The climb looks very impressive, but it may have demoted that battery to practice only status. I have a great deal of trouble convincing my own team that their energy source is not disposable like AA batteries, particularly when they're having "FUN".

Surprisingly, the battery wasn't horribly depleted at that point... it had just about gotten to the point where we thought we should change it out when we climbed, meaning everything had started to slow down and drag a little. We've run batteries down further without any long term problems.