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Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber
Pneumatic Systems are heavy. We all know it, but we have a lot of flexibility in components we can use and I wanted to probe the CD community to see what people do to shave ounces off of their pneumatic setups. Given the mandated components in R78 has anyone shopped around for functionally equivalent parts that are lighter? I assume most teams have used these items because they are free in the KoP or on FIRST Choice.
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I just don't find pneumatics to be that heavy. Especially so with the advent in 2010 (IIRC) of the plastic clippard tanks.
Motor+Gearbox+Wire+MotorController is much heavier than PlasticTank+Ram+Valve+Tubing IMO.