Batteries Carried Into Competitions

[Rich Kressly]

No "system" is going to be broken one way or the other here. However, last week I had two students spend 3 hours getting all of our battery cables to the right length and bolted properly and securely in the correct orientation, then insulated appropriately. I'm really not "feeling the vibe" for having to take them apart before our week one comp and putting them back together, just for the sake of walking through a door. It would indeed have been nice to know this sooner, I would have shipped all batteries with the crate and paid the overage. Wouldn't it be safer having teams show up with properly connected and insulated cables using the Andymark plastic plugs instead of having all teams needing to connect cables on batteries ... some fully charged ...in the pits???

I imagined that the 40 pound allowance might cause a few issues getting into an event and because of that we shipped the robot and controls in the crate. However, this is not something I anticipated at all. I hope there's time for folks to revisit this one.