Can a robot battery be used on the driver station?

[Warlord]

I had to do this at a competition one year. Someone forgot to turn off the laptop and charge it after they were using it so near the elimination matches the battery was nearly dead. There isn't a whole lot of opportunities to charge during the elimination matches so we took a battery and borrowed another team's power inverter (THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, YOU NEED A POWER INVERTER).

We didn't get in trouble or anything for using it, so I guess it is fine.

Originally Posted by EricH

If you're planning to use the Classmate, you don't need it. There's a Classmate power supply in every station.

I have NEVER been to a competition where this was true. Is this going to happen just for this year's competitions?

Hell, half the competitions I've been to there wasn't even OUTLETS, so even if we brought our own charger we still couldn't have power.