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This past saturday we were running our robot around at our facillity and something very odd happened. We have a big open carpetted room with a cubicle w/a metal strip along the bottom. Our robot generates a considerable amount of statc electricity when we drive it because of the carpet and the wheels and when you hit themetal strip on the cubicle it discharges. Also when you hit something hard enough w/the robot the circuit breaker clicks off. So when we were driving it we hit the cubicle and and the robot discharged and turned off. OK cool what ever. So we go to turn it on and it won't fire up, so we shut it off again. We went to disconnect the battery and when we grabed the connector we drew back in pain because it was burning hot! We let it cool and disconnected it and put the volt meter on it and it read .25 volts. The battery went from fully charged at 13.4 volt to .25. Please explain this!
 


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