Thread: Power for Driver Station
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Unread 10-03-2009, 17:16
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Re: Power for Driver Station
All,

The really simple way to "tether" on the side of the field is to do the following:

1. Take the AC power for the bridge (aka antenna) and plug it into your DS.
2. take the ethernet connection at the bridge and plug it into your DS.

Viola! Instant tether. This is what we did and it worked great. Just make sure you have enough length in each cable to pull it off.

I know others said id, but I wanted to make it perfectly clear that this works. We did it at Midwest at least 4 times during eliminations.