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Originally Posted by rich2202
IMHO, you should really be thinking laptop with a built in battery.
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Actually, I'd say this device should be able to run off batteries since most PCs aren't designed to have power yanked from them or drop down randomly so running them from the ROBOT's battery isn't going to work. I'd say that independent battery power is "essential to completeness" to pretty much all COTS computing devices.
However, it is up to all of the LRIs with how they interpret the ambiguously worded rule about COTS device batteries. I know how I'm interpreting it until I'm told otherwise at an event by an LRI.
And based on Al's comments in a prior thread, as long as the COTS computing device's batteries don't interface with the control or drive systems for the robot, you should be following the intent of the rule in his eyes.
EDIT: Or don't test the rules and just use one of these after adjusting the output voltage:
http://a.co/gd9yFkM