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Re: Important Q/A forum responses
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Originally Posted by Billfred
Irritation #3: http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread...=3897#post3897
Now, I will concede that the 12V battery is part of the robot. But somebody tell me, what's the benefit to this rule? While most everything else has changed with the batteries, I can't see why we can't put them in the trunk of the car Thursday morning like the past two (or three, or maybe more) seasons.
This sure seems to be the season of seemingly odd rule changes.
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This season, a lot of rules are costing veteran teams a lot of money. Our crate just squeaked in under the weight limit with only the robot in it last year. Now we have to put the controls in it. Okay, our robot is 10 lbs lighter, so we'll still squeak it. But now we have to put the batteries in it? Goodbye Ben Franklin.
Oh well, FIRST isn't cheap. Whadayagonnado?
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