[dtengineering]

So long as you've "got enough air" to power your pneumatics throughout the match I wouldn't worry too much about compressor abuse. You may want to keep in mind, however, that the compressor draws current "away" from your drive train and other systems while running. As you can see from previous posts, that shouldn't be a problem as far as reliability is concerned, but you could also set it up so that when your drive system goes to maximum power that the compressor briefly turns off. If your programmers are already up to their eyeballs in other challenges then its not worth the effort, but you could see a slight increase in drive performance.

To conserve air you might want to consider how you could hook up some of your cylinders as "single acting" (with a spring/elastic loaded return, rather than a pneumatically driven one) or run a second regulator to provide lower pressure air to cylinders that don't need a full 60 psi. If you keep the distance between the cylinders and valves short that also saves venting the pneumatic lines at the same time you vent the cylinder. When you are short on air every cc counts!

Jason