Thread: 2013 Western Canadian FRC Regional Pit Power
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Re: 2013 Western Canadian FRC Regional Pit Power
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Originally Posted by Jim Wilks View Post
Received last night from the Western Canadian FRC Regional folks:

"However, we are extremely limited in power at the venue. Be sure to charge your cell phones and personal devices at home (you will not be permitted to do so at the competition). Ensure your laptops and batteries are fully charged prior to entering the Oval. Battery and game laptops will be permitted to juice up, anything outside of this will not be permitted. Tools with low power consumption will be allowed - use the machine shop for larger tools. Only 10 Watts per team is allocated - respect it or you will have to be the one resetting the breaker every 10 minutes."

10 watts??? Battery charging will take vastly more than that! Then there's pit lighting, corded power tools, etc.

Doing some simple math on this means that the plan is to power all 30 teams at 10 watts each 30 x 10 = 300 watts total!
Most laptops draw at least 65 watts. I think they forgot a zero, but even so, 300 watts is incredibly small. A dremel pulls more than that.