Ship Battery?
 

Do we have to ship our battery with our robot?

Re: Ship Battery?
 

Yes you do. :)

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Any ideas to the reason why we are to send it off?
Just seems like an unusual rule.
Anyway, I appreciate the quick response to my previous question.

Re: Ship Battery?
 

yes, it is unusual.
and no we dont know why, maybe FIRST likes throwing curveballs.

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Yeah it doesn't seem like there's a real reason for this. we haven't had to do it in the past so it's kind of puzzling to everyone.

if someone could give us a solid reason that would be grrrrreat!

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It was that way last year.

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wait what do you mean?

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Say if i have 6 battery do i have to ship them all ?

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He means that they had the same rule in place for last year.

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Nope you just have to ship the two KOP batteries and you can bring additional batteries with you to the pits.

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they do this because of the same reason they made us use new batteries this year

batteries get better with each use and so they don't want teams to get an advantage by having better conditioned batteries

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Are you sure? I don't remember a requirement to ship the two KOP batteries with the robot in the past few years, and I don't see it in the 2006 rules. Where should I be looking?

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Sorry, My Bad. It says "When" I remembered as must.

Re: Ship Battery?
 

Alan,

Section 4.3.4, the FIRST Q&A and Update 5. Take your pick.

Mike

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I think Alan is aware of the 2007 rules; he was probably looking for the rules that were applicable last year, since John mentioned (and later retracted) that the requirement was the same last year.