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Re: Battery powered raspberry pi

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Originally Posted by techhelpbb View Post
That addresses the problem but unless said battery was bought enclosed with the Raspberry Pi complete and off the shelf it violates FRC rules. There was a whole topic on ChiefDelphi about it this year (this topic actually so this is a restatement)
"The only legal source of electrical energy for the ROBOT during the competition, the ROBOT battery, is one of the following 12VDC non-spillable lead acid batteries:"

You missed the point of SWITCHING power sources. I'm not talking about storing energy anywhere illegal during competition. The battery (or whatever power source) used to boot the Pi is not on the robot "during the competition". You remove it after turning on the robot mains. If necessary to comply with the rules a second approved battery can be the source during boot time, similar to how many of us power the driver station or Ethernet switches (for debugging) between matches.
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