[Mr V]

Originally Posted by sst.thad

Would we be able to bring our own generator and run it in the parking lot? I could see a decent chunk of teams doing that if allowed.

If you are talking about using a generator in the parking lot and running a cord to your pit I would bet that would not be allowed.

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

That's not a lot of power. I assume you've tried to obtain the use of a generator large enough to support what teams are used to?

I'm just the messenger, I did not participate in deciding what size generator to rent to supply pit power. I can tell you that how running 5 or 6 pits off of 1 20a circuit at the WA Girl's Generation was taken into consideration when deciding the power needs. It did not present a problem there until someone plugged in their Leaf into one of the circuits.

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

I figure our typical pit power draw as a team to be ~7amps.

You'd better hope no one plugs a vacuum cleaner in (~12amps).

Something like a vacuum cleaner will not be allowed to be brought in and certainly would not be allowed to be used.

Originally Posted by sst.thad

Doing the math puts charging 3 batteries between 150 and 220 Watts. Add a 50 watt laptop, a 30 watt cordless drill charger, and a few other accessories, plus losses and teams are gonna push that 400 watt limit real quick. I hope they can find a way to increase it, even if its only to like 6 amps per team instead of 4.

The current plan is to only allow charging 2 batteries per team at a time.

Again I'm just the messenger. If the power proves to be woefully inadequate the size of the rental generators will likely be revisited.