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[DarkJedi613]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

Where are people coming from with this "OMG everyone's battery is gonna die midmatch!!1!!"? Our 2005 robot, which ran something to the effect of 6 motors, a full pneumatics system and it lasted a good 12 minutes. While this year we'll be running more motors, I still don't see how a good fully charged battery could possibly die mid-match.

While I'm not assosciated with the team that built this launcher, ours reaches top speed in under 3 seconds.

I agree, as long as the batteries are fully charged teams should have no problem lasting at least a match (and easily 5 minutes). The problem arises when teams do not adequately charge their batteries or do not have enough batteries.

It ramps up in 6+ seconds without feedback, about a second with feedback.