[RyanN]

It looks like we're arguing for the sake of arguing.

A rule is a rule, no matter what you think of the rule.

If you have a problem, then Q&A is the ONLY LEGAL way to remedy the problem.

Personally, I don't see the big deal in the rule. Sure, it would be nice to have two compressors on board, and sure it would be nice if we didn't have to use the cRIO to control an off-board compressor, but the fact is, the rules tell us what we have to do.

If one compressor cannot achieve what your robot needs, maybe you need to design a better robot. We (364) are also having pneumatic's woes... 10 pistons, 4 air tanks, and 1 itty bitty compressor... but guess what, that's not stopping us. The system works quite well, and we have optimized our control system to only use air when absolutely needed.

We've never had a compressor burn up, and we have used the heck out of the two on our t-shirt shooting robot (not FRC, so that's why we have two). They're 6 years old with hundreds of hours of use and will still happily charge up our 4 gallon tank to shoot t-shirts over 300 feet. Do they get hot? Heck yea they do! But that's the umm... consequence? of compressing air.

Basically, I don't see what the big deal is.