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Re: Power Rules at competition

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Originally Posted by FrankJ (Post 1561071)

Common practice. Site safety concerns to prohibit action that you do not want for other reasons. :]. How ever one valid safety concern could be tripping hazards of extension cords stretched across passageways or congestion in a passageway.

At Buckeye there are many ways to mitigate that risk; it's not necessary for cords to cross passageways or cause congestion. Just one of the many things that I (speaking only for myself here) don't understand about this particular regional. I appreciate the planning committee and their efforts and I understand that most of these issues are probably out of their control, but still...

Re: Power Rules at competition

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Originally Posted by ayeckley (Post 1561119)

... Just one of the many things that I (speaking only for myself here) don't understand about this particular regional. I appreciate the planning committee and their efforts and I understand that most of these issues are probably out of their control, but still...

Not going to disagree with that.

After they kept making that announcement to the pits, some of my team members decided that they want to build their own UPS for the stands using old competition batteries and an inverter. I shot down the 4-cycle portable generator idea...