Quote Originally Posted by Bacon Wizard View Post
All you have to do is turn the supply on to charge caps, and turn it off again to discharge them. You don't even have to turn the DC off, just re-route it if it were really necessary. If that were considered AC, then anything binary in nature will need to be banned.
Ok that's fine, I thought you were converting it to AC and didn't want you to be caught out by the rules. Although I imagine this concerns the "loopholes" part of the rules so you should ask if it is acceptable before building and I would also ask the event organisers if they are happy to have a 200kg robot in their arena- there aren't any superheavyweights for a reason.