Team Death - New Heavyweight

[Ocracoke]

Roboteers with advice on this is welcome ie what run time you should get and what is the lowest you would let your cell voltage/overhal voltage go toand what methods you might use to prevent the voltage from going to dangerously low levels when robot is in use.

Most ESCs these days have a LiPo function that automatically cut power when the voltage level is too low. The Cytron definitely has the facility to detect undervoltage (< 3.0v per cell) (https://www.robotshop.com/media/file...sersManual.pdf - Section 7b) but it doesn't cut it out, only on overvoltage apparently.

This had me panicked a little as section 7.8.2 of the rules (specifically pertaining to LiPo batteries) state the following:

7.8.2
Voltage Cut-out (Advisory)
The robot maybe fitted with an under voltage cut-out or alarm set at or higher than the battery
manufacturer’s recommendation to prevent the batteries from becoming damaged by over-discharge

You'll note that it is an advisory at the moment (as of the 2017 ruleset) so with this ESC and battery chemistry, you'd be OK but the only option then is to fit a secondary meter/alarm into the balance plug (https://hobbyking.com/en_us/hobbykin...arm-2s-6s.html) for each battery pack.