Battery Charging Station

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

Yes. A fuse blew at the Boilermaker regional one year, and lots of people had no power.

If teams are limited to 4 amps apiece, it's going to cause problems if anyone wants to run a shop vac. That's not an unheard of practice.

This actually occurred because teams were using the upper limit of available power from the generator. Coupled with the warm temps that year, the electrical distro finally broke down and was too hot to go near for quite a while. It took out the pits and the FCS computers as well. Thankfully it occurred near the end of the competition day.
Putting in higher power generation carries higher distro costs and increased liability insurance. That is of course if you can find one locally.