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Re: Driver station power

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Originally Posted by Dragonking View Post
I believe there are available power strips or individual sockets at each of the driver stations on all fields. I'm pretty sure they are available at all venues, if you need power.
I believe there are connectors for the KOP driver station computers, however teams not running that computer can not benefit from them.

We wound up connecting a 12v robot battery to a 120v inverter, and powered the laptop charger directly. This saved us on a number of occasions, going into matches only to find that the driver station battery was about to die as we were setting up.
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