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Originally Posted by byteit101
not necessarily, you could have a three way switch that connects the battery directly to the motor forward, backwards, and off, and the main robot could turn it on, deploy it, it would hit the top, flipping the switch, sending it in reverse. No wasted battery, no code
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Exactly. The minibot rule section states you can use some common household light switches. Seems trivial to set up your deployment system to flip it on as it goes up.
Even if you left it always on, I don't think ~4 mins will kill the battery. Then again, I don't know the life of these batteries.
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