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Larry Johnston
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Re: Custom Chargers for backup battery

Hate to bring up old conversation...

However at the Kokomo Workshops recently some members of other teams and i got into a discussion about wether custom charging circuits were legal.

We never really decided. However we did find that many teams had custom charging circuits on there robots and got through inspection with out a problem.

I just wanted to repost and remind every (incase i forget), that this should definitly be a question to ask this year... As it would be very beneficial to many teams.

Something a little off subject... but still partially related. I myself worked on a custom charging circuit and i do have to say that i learned a lot more by doing that then simply taking IFI's design... I think that we should see more custom circuitry in FIRST. Because right now the way it is you learn the very very very basics of DC electrical wiring. Unless you get into custom circuits you don't learn many things about electrical circuits and electricity as you should.
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