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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
No...
R80
Compressed air on the ROBOT must be provided by one and only one compressor.
This gets everyone every year. You may not, under any circumstances, fill the tanks on the robot with anything other than one and only one FRC legal compressor under cRio control.
The motor on the Thomas compressor is very close to the same internal construction as a CIM motor. We have lost several over the years due to worn bearings, damaged or worn brush assy. or external metallic debris. The surprising thing is we have not lost a piston assy although the seals do dry out with use.
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For the record, I'm still of the opinion this is a crappy rule with unclear intent.
1075 built our power wheelchair-gone-forklift cart to have an onboard compressor, which was powered by the 2004 IFI control system that it ran on, controlled by a pressure switch just like an FRC robot, running the older Thomas compressor, just like an FRC robot, but we were not allowed to charge the system at competition with it, because the robot itself wasn't controlling it.
Its no more or less safe, and the argument of it uses battery power from another source is silly because I can change the battery in my robot after I've charged the air system with the dead one from last match.