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Weight Limit should be increased to make things more exciting. 6 10.71%
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Weigh in with or without battery

I believe the maximum weight of the robot should be 130 Lbs without battery. I have heard that some teams "Cheat" at weigh in... They dump the insides of the battery and weigh in with a dummy. I believe the standard weight should be 130 W/O battery. I will have a poll on this, please tell me what you feel and maybee it will come true.
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Should weigh in be with or without battery?

Yes.

No.

Doesn't compute.
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Well, for now.. Yes means With and No means without.
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Through my experiences I deffinately believe a team should weigh in without their batteries. Without going into detail, it keeps things on an equal playing field.
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Well just to put things in perspective the type of team that would weigh in with a ringer battery, is the same type of team that will weigh in with a subassembly missing from their robot and then add it after they make weight and hope no-one notices or has to re-weigh. There will always be people who try to cheat the system, the battery is but one of the ways.
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...and if teams weighing with an illegitimate battery is an endemic problem, FIRST can set up guidelines for acceptable battery weight -- say, 12 to 16 lbs. or so, and check the battery for compliance.
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It saddens me to think that anyone in FIRST would ignore GP and cheat in this manner. It is one thing to accidentally break the rules or push the limits on their interpretation. It is quite sad when it is done so blatantly.

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as of being a FIRST volunteer, and having worked with some of the inspectors, i am going to have to say weigh in with the battery, and to show you all the truth, no one can get away with a hollow battery in an inspection, unless the inspector misses or forgets to do half the inspection. See the battery is not really placed in there to add weight, it is in there to work as a BATTERY. I know this may be hard to fathom for some of you but the battery is an operational device of the robot, plain and simple. With out getting into much detail, when you go through an inspection, the robot should be turned on, this is to check for any wiring that may be done incorrectly and cant be seen by our eyes. Also it is to make sure all the parts (including the pneumatic pump, with an empty accumulator) turns on to fill it and turns off with the pressure switch when it hits around the correct PSI. Now i am not saying that you may think, OK then just place the battery in after the weigh-in, and that might work if bots were inspected properly, but as it is now, the battery is the robots weight so its included in the weigh in. Also i would not recommend people to try and fool inspectors with hollowed out batteries, because these batteries are filled with a caustic gel that i have seen eat through metal, due to a team member on an unmentioned team trying to shave weight off the sides of a battery and causing it to leak while in shipment... Now imagine that on your skin!
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I think that the current weight limit is appropriate in that it provides enough room to have plenty of features, but still provides a challenge. In terms of teams that use dummy batteries, I think that any team caught weighing in with a dummy should be disqualified from that entire regional (or nationals as the case may be). I know it sounds extreme, but IMHO dummy batteries are among the sleaziest thing a team can do.
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I think that the current weight limit is appropriate in that it provides enough room to have plenty of features, but still provides a challenge. In terms of teams that use dummy batteries, I think that any team caught weighing in with a dummy should be disqualified from that entire regional (or nationals as the case may be). I know it sounds extreme, but IMHO dummy batteries are among the sleaziest thing a team can do.
Not to mention it is one of the easiest ways to get caught cheating.
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I think the weigh-in should be with the battery, since that is the form in which the robot is competing. It'd be as if the length, width, and height minimum measurements were in a different position than the starting position.

Although it would be good in that there would be fewer ways for teams to cheat at weighing-in. But this is FIRST; should we really be concerned about that?
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Although it would be good in that there would be fewer ways for teams to cheat at weighing-in. But this is FIRST; should we really be concerned about that?
Well it really isn't that hard to give a tug to a battery now is it?? It shouldn't take a rocket science to figure out that if your lifting that battery with ease then there is something wrong.
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...a team member on an unmentioned team trying to shave weight off the sides of a battery and causing it to leak while in shipment... Now imagine that on your skin!
Like drilling holes in the battery to save weight? I recall some threads where we expressly warned rookies not to do this, and that it was all a joke. Someone seems to have missed the point....
Also, at some events (possibly most), due to the scheduling constraints, weigh-in and the power-on tests were conducted separately. This means that the inspector would not accompany the robot from the weighing station to the pit, where the powered tests were conducted. Instead, he/she or another inspector would return later to complete the inspection. It would be very possible for a team to replace the modified battery with a functional one in the intervening time.
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...no one can get away with a hollow battery in an inspection, unless the inspector misses or forgets to do half the inspection.
So you see, it's not a matter of the inspector forgetting, it's a matter of the offending team making a discreet switch when nobody's inspecting.
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When I was inspecting last year, I had several ways of making sure the battery was "real". Generally I just had the team turn on the robot to check that the light operated correctly and the other controler settings were correct. Then we'd run over to the scale and weigh the robot, without removing the battery.

Sometimes this was not possible, like during a partial inspection. We would often go through the control system and pnuematics before a team was ready to weigh or while they were working on dumb things like numbers.

If the control system had already been inspected, we'd weigh the robot and then take the battery out and weigh it seperately. There was some variation between batteries, but it should be pretty obvious if a battery was tampered with in a major way. As I recall they varied between 13.5 and 14lbs. Anything outside that range would definitely arouse my curiosity.

There are many ways to "fudge" the rules. But messing with the battery won't help, it will just get you caught. Because the inspectors are looking for it.

If anyone has reliable information about a team that did cheat this way last year, and got away with it. I'd like to hear about it. Especially if it happened at Sacramento, LA, or the Championship.
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