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Originally Posted by T. Hoffman
If a team mounted a suitable 2-way quick disconnect connector (like the red Anderson connectors only not nearly as beefy) somewhere convenient near the periphery of the robot and ran red and black pigtail leads back from the connector to the Spike, would that be a legal setup?
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That's
exactly what the TechnoKats did for the 2006 'bot, right down to the color of wires and brand of connector.
We also had a 2005 OI with a spare tether cable mounted to the frame holding the off-board compressor, so we didn't need to connect the "real" OI in order to get the robot to power up and run the compressor. The compressor frame had a spot to carry a battery as well; the drive team would charge up the pneumatics using the "pit" battery and quickly swap in a fully-charged "competition" battery.