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Re: How to power Mini-PC on robot?

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Originally Posted by rich2202 View Post
A COTS device that includes a battery is an easy bright line to enforce. If you allow teams to install any battery, then what are the rules on what can get a battery? If a fire starts because a custom battery circuit shorted out, how do you turn it off?
How do you turn off a laptop battery that's shorted out and started a fire? It's certainly happened before.

People aren't asking for "any battery" to be legal, just USB batteries of some shape or form. These are common devices, with a known output plug, voltage, and current. A restriction saying "COTS batteries that output 5V power over USB at 2 amps or less and 10,000mAh or less" for example would be reasonably narrow, wouldn't result in these strange nightmare slippery-slope kids-wired-a-battery-at-home-using-bare-copper scenarios people keep jumping to, and would fix this and many other problems.
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