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Re: Using a Battery with Custum OI Box
I believe the answer is no. I don't have the rule handy at the moment, but you are limited in your power sources at the driver station. A laptop computer can use a battery, and the USB chicklet (should you choose to buy and use one) has a specific rule allowing it -- and only it -- to use an external power source... but anything else connected to the OI has to be powered by the OI.

And there isn't a lot of juice there. Some... but not much.

Jason