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Originally Posted by JB987
Have you calculated how long it will take to fill your tanks needed air volume between matches (using only one legal compressor) and how long the climb will take?
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Better than calculated we have run a full up systems test of the pneumatic system because we were very aware of the 5 minutes you have in the later elimination rounds to reset your robot.
We are running at 4 minutes 30 seconds with the legal big compressor. Volume of air, Cg, and weight were some of the big design drivers in order to get the robot we designed to work.
We felt comfortable showing off our design in week 4 because for someone to copy it at this point they would pretty much have to scrap everything they have. The whole robot was designed for this one purpose and just adding a couple of lift cylinders and a lot of air storage to an existing robot won't get you the 30 pts.
We won't truly know how long the climb takes until we can do a full up system test this weekend, but we were shooting for 30 - 45 seconds maximum.