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Originally Posted by Daynater

'Ello everyone. Im curious because I've found nothing about it in the rules, is it legal/ok to have a battery and a DC/AC converter on the robot's cart for charging laptops/phones etc? The cart battery would never be powering anything robot related other than the driver station.

Yes, the use of a battery to charge the driver station via an inverter is fine. It is also fine to charge laptops/phones from
it.

Be careful with the output side of the inverter(120v bit), as especially being on a robot cart, it could easily be abraded, scrapped and even accidentally cut. You'll need to be super careful to make sure this can't happen.

Something like this?

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ghlight=tablet

Andymark sells an inverter with an SB50 Anderson already attached
http://www.andymark.com/product-p/am-0626.htm