[Mike Martus]

Wow! A lot of discussion regarding batteries and the chargers.

At first we (inspectors) were told, and teams were told to use only this years chargers and exide batteries from this year. As the day developed it was apparent that the 1 amp charger could not do the job.

A decision was made to allow teams to use the 4 amp chargers from last year and ONLY thr batteries from this year!

I have been speaking out that teams should be allowed as many batteries as they want but only 1 on the bot at a time ( as per FRC Q & A #376.

Last word here is: ONLY this years batteries, Only 2 batteries per team, last years 4 amp chargers.

I was explained that the intent was to make it fair since the Rookie teams had only two batteries, that all could only have two batteries.

Does it really matter how may batteries a team has.

I witness many robots at the end of the day with "Brown outs" as a result of low battery.

Vote on the poll. What do you think?