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Well first off I see that a few of you have misunderstood what my other teamates were trying to say, so... let me say it from an electrical point of view.

What we believe to have happened was that our crate which had our batteries in it was stored in mostlikely a warehouse which due to the recent cold temperatures could have frozen the gell cells damaging them, not that we thought they were still frozen.

Because basically the cells are made of 6 2 volt gell cell packs and we believe that if one of these cells, which are obviously hooked up in series, is damaged it will affect the whole prefromance.

The clues that give us that is that we are 1) slowly fading out and losing power throughout the match untill we get to a point where we cant move. 2) its not the breakers because the speedcontrolers are still getting power and the signal light is still on even though the pwm provides no power only the main input. 3) under no load conditions we dont have any problem meaning all our batteries are giving false charges even when charged overnight.

Now this is purely a hypothesis and we do not know if it is exactly what happened but we are going to look into the shipping that our crate underwent and report further.
 


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