Plan battery charging procedure

[trickeydan]

This is instructions for volunteers.

[RealOrangeOne]

We should ensure the battery docs are heavily pointed to, to ensure people know there's documentation on how to do things, and actually follow them.

https://studentrobotics.org/docs/kit/batteries/

[RealOrangeOne]

https://bitbucket.org/richardbarlow/sr-comp-team-support-coord/wiki/Battery_Charging/

[Adimote]

We need a printout of exactly how to perform the charging process

[RealOrangeOne]

We should also ensure the volunteers who are going to be doing this for the final slot on Saturday, and the first slot on Sunday know how to handle teams asking for batteries.

This will likely just be done with a google sheet.

[PeterJCLaw]

@RealOrangeOne what's special about the first slot on Sunday? Is it that the team might already have a battery from overnight?

[PeterJCLaw]

@RealOrangeOne is that comment relevant here? It sounds more like a Helpdesk thing (since Helpdesk is where teams get batteries from)

[trickeydan]

I have written docs for both the helpdesk and battery charging side.

I currently have nowhere to put them though, review is blocked on srobo/runbook#8

[trickeydan]

We should also ensure the volunteers who are going to be doing this for the final slot on Saturday, and the first slot on Sunday know how to handle teams asking for batteries.

I think the process here is probably more relevant to H&S than Helpdesk / Battery Charging. @Scarzy I presume batteries are not to be issued until the robot is deemed safe?

[Scarzy]

We should also ensure the volunteers who are going to be doing this for the final slot on Saturday, and the first slot on Sunday know how to handle teams asking for batteries.

I think the process here is probably more relevant to H&S than Helpdesk / Battery Charging. @Scarzy I presume batteries are not to be issued until the robot is deemed safe?

Incorrect. The most common safety issue is that teams have failed to protect the battery, which requires a battery to be able to test. Also, it's worth remembering that performing the safety checks takes time, and having teams unable to do anything whilst waiting to be tested is a bit unfair. As such it makes most sense for them to have immediate access to a battery, and only have it withdrawn in the event of a serious safety issue.

[RealOrangeOne]

srobo/runbook#8 has merged, so this is unblocked.

[Adimote]

https://hackmd.io/2FKmAGKzSKm2OuTWh3M9UA has a lot of content on battery charging (it uses the runbook as a base), sadly @trickeydan is too busy to finish this.

[jcwilliamson]

I have modified the runbook to include Dan's changes, and submitted a PR.
srobo/runbook#21

[PeterJCLaw]

@Adimote as you've got a PR for this, do you want to grab this task?