Which Battery to Buy?

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Originally Posted by yash101

There is no way to prevent mistakes like this from causing a dangerous environment. However, Why is the battery in place while someone is working on the robot?

Here's a way to make it safe to drill into a battery: choose a battery type that doesn't have a violent reaction when a cell is breached. For example, the type we use currently or, according the AdamHeard, LiFePO4.

Also, your team might remove the battery before working on the robot but it seems to me that most teams don't. Maybe I haven't been looking closely enough, but it's seemed to me that at competition the only time a team removes a battery is to put a fresh one in.