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Re: pic: Are these legal?

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We used orange in 2013 and 2014 but we decided to switch back to red so that we would be compatible with other FRC teams, as the orange ones were too hard to force together with the red ones.
Is it illegal to modify the connectors ie shave off the inside tab.
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Re: pic: Are these legal?

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Is it illegal to modify the connectors ie shave off the inside tab.
I thought R66 would make this illegal but after rereading it I'm not sure that it does. This should be something that you Q&A.


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Re: pic: Are these legal?

We also looked into using green SB50 connectors last year, but ditched the idea as soon as we realized each color was keyed differently. Not worth giving up compatibility with every other team in case you need to borrow/lend batteries at competition.
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Re: pic: Are these legal?

The batteries should not include the connectors, because the batteries come without them (Source). So that should be legal, at least concerning R66.
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Re: pic: Are these legal?

Please reread Allen's post above. Robot Rules for 2016 do not specifically call out color but the Blue Box in R36 explains this further. Do not try to force different colored SB50 connectors as this may damage them. Modifying the connectors so that other colors may be used may be a violation of R66.
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