Can someone post this on FIRST q/a

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Originally Posted by Specialagentjim

We use the supplied connector every year and it's proven to be helpful during finals. When it gets down to that finals crunch, you want to have good charged batteries, and often times you run clean out. Luckily, sometimes you'll have an alliance that brings 20 batteries and has some amazing charging system devised. You borrow a battery from them for the match. Thats our thinking at least.

Honestly, I am very wary about borrowing batteries from other teams after last year. We borrowed a battery from a local team for national and we ended up not moving one match because of a dead cell. That hurt us tremendously since it was in qualification. We ended up seeding like fourth or fifth but without a bad cell we could have easily been 1st. And you remember the number 1 alliance from Archimedes (wildstang, las guerillas, husky brigade). So I wouldn't completely trust a borrowed battery make sure you test it before, because when you're not moving, a minute and 45 second is a long time.