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Large Backup Battery
Our team is using AndyMark Super Shifters this year with servo shifting. I've read here on CD, and found out through testing that the servos drain the backup battery very fast. My question is are we allowed to take 12 NICAD cells and wire it so that we get 7.2 Volts, but twice the milliamp hours? (6 parallel pairs in series)
I know its not legal to use 2 batteries, but I believe this would be considered 1 battery. Thanks, Andrew |
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Re: Large Backup Battery
According to <R73> any commercially supplied 7.2V NiCad may be substituted for the supplied backup battery. Your question appears to asking about making a custom backup battery of some sort which I would say is not legal. Purchasing a 7.2V NiCad with a higher capacity does appear to be legal and would likely be the best solution to pursue.
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I know our team had an issue last year with a fried backup battery that we believe may have been caused by overcharging using the KOP charger. Last edited by Vikesrock : 08-02-2008 at 14:30. Reason: Clarification |
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Re: Large Backup Battery
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Re: Large Backup Battery
Why Not Build A Backup Battery Circuit? Sorry For The Weird Text, I'm Doing This On My Phone...
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Re: Large Backup Battery
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You can buy larger capacity battery packs from places like Digikey. You can also use the IFI onboard charger (although I don't personally recommend that). I believe Digikey has packs up to 1100 maHr. |
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Re: Large Backup Battery
Is your recommendation against the onboard charger based on the specific design of the IFI charger or the concept in general. The rules allow for a "similar charging circuit", perhaps if the recommendation is solely based on the IFI design someone should design a better one and put it up as a whitepaper?
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Re: Large Backup Battery
thank you all for your help.
I asked our electrical guys if we could put a backup battery charger on our robot. They told me no because under heavy load, the backup battery would attempt to charge the main battery. In 2006, they used a slightly modified one and at the regional, they were told it wasn't allowed. |
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Re: Large Backup Battery
The rules this year give teams the option of designing a series diode into the input of an onboard backup battery charger circuit. That solves the problem of the backup battery attempting to power the entire robot.
So far as I know, we aren't using the backup battery for anything besides the control system backup power. Still, we'll be using an onboard charger just for the convenience of not having to remove, recharge, and replace it. |
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Re: Large Backup Battery
The answer would be no, the backup battery charger wouldn't supply current to the robot in brownout. The RC goes to sleep when the main input falls below 8 volts for a period of time. 7.2 volts isn't enough to wake it up.
As to my other post...There is no substitute for having a second, fully charged backup battery to put on the robot before sending it out. |
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