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Re: PNW robotics teams, what'd you think of the district model?
The rule is in regard to power consumption in the pits. It really has little to do with money but rather more to do with available power at the smaller venues at the district level. Smaller venues like high schools have usually not been designed to have many circuits in their gym areas. This means that power must be brought in via external generators. District FirstWa volunteers did rent some hefty generators and brought in this power for pits. We were limited to this amount.
It usually meant that you could only be charging 2-3 batteries at a time in your pit. No large table top machines were allowed in pits. Battery driven power tools were fine but you needed to be careful about charging. It did limit pit displays that required lots of power
At DCMP we did not have this restriction.
Our team had to adapt and look at the way we used power during events
It actually was a pretty good teaching opportunity
We had no problems with the new set up.
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