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Originally Posted by marccenter
Since it is my first year using pnematics I don't have feel for how "closely" the inspectors follow the game manual configuration. Please weigh in on any thoughts and experience with pneumatics configurations at previous inspections? Thanks in advance
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Hopefully, *very* closely; I know I do. Pneumatics have the capability to be quite dangerous; you want them properly controlled. The diagram in the rules is just an example; you don't have to follow it exactly. But you
DO need to make sure that you have working & stored pressures correctly segmented & gauges visible, the relief valve on the compressor, and the pressure switch on the stored side.
Since you've not used pneumatics before, I'll make one request -- please make sure you put your manual vent plug in a very reachable & visible place (I really wish the rules would make a label mandatory...). Put it where you wouldn't mind your hand going if the robot is on fire & the pneumatics are randomly firing...
That might seem like a too-obvious suggestion, but it's amazing where teams put them. In Breakaway I had to make a team move theirs; you had to reach
through their kicker to get to it.
