Transport Configuration - External Battery

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

FIRST has been very consistent in the past about not allowing tethered or powered control of a robot pre or post match. I searched the Q&A, and so far I haven't seen any questions on it regarding post match configuration. It would be my assumption that the robot needs to be returned to a TRANSPORT CONFIGURATION before being removed from the field but it is probably worth a Q&A question to verify if it is going to affect your team.

Agreed.

My concern is T6 does not have a penalty attached to it, and therefore might be ignored by some teams (not mine) if they need to leave the field fast.

G11 has a penalty attached to it and a time frame to leave the field which gives reason to break T6 (again without penalty).

G14 does not allow tethering/powering after the match on the field, so teams need to ensure that their robot can be reset to TRANSPORT CONFIGURATION without power at the end of the match. My team is already doing this, but I am concerned that others (especially those that are looking at grabbing the all RECYCLE CONTAINERS off of the STEP.