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Originally Posted by JohnBoucher
We do it every year. We swap out batteries twice and run the OI from a battery. I think we need to swap the wheels.
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You did it every year - with the old control system. You may need to be careful about making any assumptions about the battery lifetime and total traverse distance with the new system. Unless I had run a few tests to understand the effects of the new control system on battery life when attempting extended driving, I would want to be rather cautious.
-dave
** although, this does cause one to think about a great idea for an alternate off-season competition - having a competition to see who can drive the longest / farthest with their official FRC robot on a single battery charge. How many laps can you do around an official 1/4-mile running track with one battery? What can you do to your drivetrains to make them as power-efficient as possible for this test (rather than as fast or as powerful as possible)? Given all the recent interest in "green" projects, this could be kind of interesting.
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The bulk of the hardest fun you'll ever have is opening up that box in early january, and the six week of chaos that that box of parts puts you through. - Joe G. [more] 
11-05-2009, 16:42
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