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Originally posted by dez250
...a team member on an unmentioned team trying to shave weight off the sides of a battery and causing it to leak while in shipment... Now imagine that on your skin!
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Like drilling holes in the battery to save weight? I recall some threads where we expressly warned rookies
not to do this, and that it was all a joke. Someone seems to have missed the point....
Also, at some events (possibly most), due to the scheduling constraints, weigh-in and the power-on tests were conducted separately. This means that the inspector would not accompany the robot from the weighing station to the pit, where the powered tests were conducted. Instead, he/she or another inspector would return later to complete the inspection. It would be very possible for a team to replace the modified battery with a functional one in the intervening time.
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Originally posted by dez250
...no one can get away with a hollow battery in an inspection, unless the inspector misses or forgets to do half the inspection.
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So you see, it's not a matter of the inspector forgetting, it's a matter of the offending team making a discreet switch when nobody's inspecting.
-Tristan Lall