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Originally Posted by Kit Gerhart
This whole battery thing has always been to create business for FIRST battery suppliers. ...
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I can't comment about every year, but at least once I know that FIRST kit-of-parts batteries were definitely not selected to create business for the battery supplier.
In 1997 (for
Toroid Terror) I was the battery "supplier". The batteries that year were used in a 12V cordless Skil-Bosch drill made by another division of the company I work for. My management OK'd buying a few hundred extra units to donate to FIRST. Things were simpler then -- only about 150 kits, if I recall correctly, with two batteries per kit and about 200 spares. We also supplied a similar quantity of the battery chargers, drill motors, gearboxes, and drill housings from the same product.
Just look at this awesome 2007 kit of parts! FIRST has come a long way!
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07-01-2007, 22:23
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