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Re: Battery Charging Station

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Originally Posted by yash101 View Post
I'm surprised that the people setting up the regional don't bring in a 10 kW generator! That's weird because they probably know that there will be a great power usage.
Yash, you're going to go talk to the folks who run the Arizona Regional about how much it costs to run a regional, and how hard it is or isn't to get that funding. You're also going to talk about past Arizona Regionals in the Coliseum, same topic. (I'm hoping some of them happen to see this and go find you to make sure.)

Once you do that, you'll understand exactly why they don't bring in a much bigger generator at this time, even if they know there may be a huge power issue.

If it works out OK this time, then we'll all have been saying the sky was falling. If it doesn't, or barely works, then I'm sure that increasing the size of generator will be very high on the list of priorities for the next event.
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