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Re: Pneumatic robot lifts allowed?

We used two cylinders to pneumatically lift our robot up about 15 inches to land on top of and drop the bridge this past weekend in Hawaii. The cylinders pushed a wheelie bar capped with wood ends from the bottom of our frame. It pivoted from just behind the front bumper. One of the latest updates allow you to temporarily violate the bumber zone to cross the bump or to get on a bridge. These were the only two exceptions and we were warned not to wheelie too far from the bridge to avoid a penalty. We thought of using it on the bridge to drive up onto a partner but I don't think that would be legal under the exceptions made in the update. You can always run it by the head ref in practice. BTW, it worked like a charm everytime!
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