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Originally Posted by Blue_Mist
Someone mentioned batteries. We wrote on masking tape the word "fire" in five different languages and used each language to differentiate between each battery light and the ends of each cable connected to the battery. This way, you can look at the end of any cable and see which goes to which indicator light, avoiding the whole follow-the-wire-to-a-good-battery business.
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What's a "battery light"?
If you're talking about battery chargers, we do something similar. Each charger has a colored stripe on it, matching the color of tape wrapped around the strain relief/handle attached to its connector.
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Another thing that helped was a long piece of masking tape with "Charging... Charging... Charged!" on it that someone always sticks to the ground under the table by the battery charger/s, and now we just place the freshest batteries at the "Charged!" end and the least charged at the other end.
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We use the plastic battery flags that were introduced a few years ago (actually, we
invented them). When a battery finishes charging, the moment it's removed from the charger it immediately gets a flag in its connector to mark it as ready for use. The flag must be removed in order to use the battery, which automatically marks it as uncharged.
Each battery is numbered, and we try to follow a logical rotation to use them evenly during competition.