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Re: Opinions on A/M battery cart?

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
I hope there was more to it than that. I've never noticed anything in the safety manual about battery altitude.
No rule book quote, but I can agree with the inspector that vertical batteries aren't safe. Looking at that robopromo, it looks to me like a bad idea to have that many heavy items on such a small footing.

Even the people that bought the Andymark cart say its 'tippy' --do you believe that roboproto stands up without duck-taping it to the pit-leg...?

Batteries smacking the floor could be problematic. If you knock that whole thing over, do you go ahead and compete with five compromised batteries?
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