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Re: Filling Robot Pneumatic Systems

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis View Post
Look at the pneumatics section of the rule book. Between R78, R85 and R86 I personally don't see how having off-board storage to help charge your on-board tanks is legal. If you are seriously considering this route, please ask on the Q&A so your inspectors have some guidance from the GDC before you show up at the competition!
Consider a system where you have 15 Cots storage tanks attached to a portion of your robot cart. These storage tanks have the mandatory emergency release ball valve and pressure gage on them. While in the pits, you run a piece of pneumatic tubing from the pressure release ball valve on your robot to the pressure release ball valve on your storage farm. Open both ball valves, and turn on the compressor.

The compressor fills both the storage farm and the robot.

Close both ball valves, pull the pneumatic tube, and keep the storage farm for the play-offs.

Would that violate a rule?