All--
With regards to the connector issue at hand, i'm going to refer to Team Update #10..
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FIRST staff and volunteers will vigorously support and enforce the 2004 rules as written.
Team’s excellent and creative work that may not align / be in agreement with the rules will be acknowledged as excellent work but will be disallowed.
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When the volunteers and inspectors read the rules the way Aidan reads them, and you have a fleet of batteries with your upgraded connectors on them, it'll just be a waste of money, as you will have to change all of them....
It would be safer this year to follow the rules and use the connectors in the kit... like Aidan said, over 25,000 FIRST matches with very few incidents... All this rule does is level the playing field. FIRST has a lot of very intelligent people working for them, I trust their decision, and to me, the "correct" interpretation of that rule is that we MUST use the SB-50 connector.
Best of luck,
Tom