What we have learned about Batteries

[eugenebrooks]

More reason to wait until we see the game rules and KOP before buying equipment and supplies that may be affected by the rules!

Specification sheets available on the net put this battery at the same size, weight and capacity* as the EXIDE ES18-12, so this possible change would be transparent, except for the possibility of ruling out use of prior year's batteries for competition matches. Lets hope not. Some teams have acquired quite a collection of batteries, over the years, and carefully maintain them.

* Some web sites list it as 18 amp hours, and some list it as 17 amp hours.
* Some web sites list it with a maximum discharge current of 90 amps, for 5 seconds, instead of 230.

Any change is possible, we won't know until we see the KOP...

Eugene

Originally Posted by galewind

Now, this is newsworthy in and of itself, though I'm not sure how much of it is true.

*Apparently* FIRST is moving away from the Exide ES18-12 battery, and moving to a battery by MK (the ES17-12). This came from the Batteries Plus vendor when I tried to confirm some information about ordering new batteries (as we were going to order more for this coming year).

I don't know anything other than that -- I tried to follow up with the FIRST "KoP Engineer", but they did not return my call.

Again, this is ONLY from the battery vendor "Batteries Plus", and I HAVE NOT been able to confirm any battery changes and/or official vendors yet.