pic: Our new cart, pic 1

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Originally Posted by InfernoX14

So you plan on powering it up every time you want to move the cart? Even if you have to move it 2 feet?

The beauty of embedded processing... it takes less than a second to boot up a FRC controller... i'm assuming thats what you're using...

Plus, I doubt the cart uses much energy on 'stand by' (not moving) so you could probably leave it on all the time, just put a quick disconnect on it so you can just hook it to your charger whenever its in your pit.

If you're handy with a lathe and/or a vertical mill, you could make a nifty magnetic power connector (like on a mac, but bigger) pretty easily out of some brass and HDPE (or delrin or any insulative, rigid plastic of your choice). Always wanted to make one of these... but never had an application for it yet.

-q