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Originally Posted by Cory
What happened to not lawyering the rules?
It is quite clear the rules mean that DURING the MATCH power can only come from one battery, not at any point in time, all non electrical stored energy on your robot must have been generated by the battery that ends up on the robot during the match.
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By this logic all spings, surgical tubing etc. would have to be extended by use of a battery (never mind the competition battery). That means designing and building special motor driven mechanisms purely to pull a spring or piece of surgical tubing into a starting configuration, rather than do it manually.
The more parsimonious approach is to take <R01> as written and accept any (safe) original source of energy to be converted to the allowable stored energy devices.