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Originally Posted by BlacksmithWoods
Notice how it says "Non-electrical sources of energy used by FRC Robots, (i.e., stored at the start of a Match), shall come ONLY from the following sources:" From my knowledge of the rules and from past years I don't believe that springs are allowed.
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Springs were most definitely allowed in the past. Elastic potential energy is stored in a compressed spring, and that spring counts as a deformation of a robot part.