good way to keep spare batteries topped off??

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by davidthefat

Is that the reason why some of our older batteries barely last 10 minutes? I better tell my team. What is an alternate of charging? Instead of the alligator clips, use the big red plug thing? Do we have to modify the charger ourselves or are there ones already in production that we can just buy?

This is one of those things for which you have a hard time remembering the source. I'm pretty sure it is mentioned in a presentation given by Al Sk. for the 2009 conference session. 2009CON_Robot_Electrical_Design_Skierkiewicz

I highly recommend the hour spent watching this recording of him talking about the heart and life blood of FRC robots. I suppose you're going to ask where to get it. Still scratching my head on that one. Google Al's name, exclude chief delphi, should get you close to it online.