[mman1506]

I am in no way trying to give an official response but I'm going to give my input from experience. We carried the deep cycle to the driver stations to keep are crummy laptop charged. It was also used charge batteries on the cart with a DC/DC charger.

At are first regional (GTRE) we asked the safety inspector about the deep cycle. He said its fine but he would like us to cover the terminals to prevent shorts. Another safety inspector requested that we put the battery in a box for our next regional because it looked unsightly on the field.

In response to this we built a nice looking case out of wood for Waterloo. At the comp we asked the safety inspector about the deep cycle and he awarded us safety tokens for the case. A second inspector later awarded us more safety tokens for the case.