For Team Deaths new machine, the active light is on a seperate source of power (for sake of not having a multitude of resistors) - but it goes through the same link as every other component in the machine before it ends up at the LED. So it'll still be a true indication of the bots ability to cause surprises on approach. Unless an opponent manage to snap the LED cable and nothing else, but the way it is wired, you should have to destroy a lot of things to get in there, and you'd almost certainly knock out another set of wires anyway.