Battery Charger Restrictions

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At the New York Regional, the judges told us that our battery charger, (DSR 8-Bank Digital Battery Charger, Model# INC812A) was not allowed in the pits and that we had to get rid of it. None of the people on the team have been able to find any rules restricting chargers in the manual, but the judges still insist we have to take it out of the pits because we may misuse it and mess up the batteries, even though the charger has basically the same ampage and volts and all that stuff as the KOP chargers, but despite our arguing the judges made us take the charger out of the pits and we had a freshman sit by the charger outside the arena and run back and forth with charged batteries. So what should we do? Are there rules about chargers we dont know about or should we still argue with the judges?