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Re: Recharging Robot Pneumatics with Air Tool compressor
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Originally Posted by martin417
Or more importantly, to blow off the robot before powering it up because your team, or the team in the next pt was cutting, grinding, filing, chopping, de-burring, trimming, stripping, or otherwise performing an activity likely to cause metal bits and pieces to be in the air and possibly land in or on your sensitive electronics.
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Please don't use compressed air to to blow off your robot in an FRC pit. As you said yourself, it can send small metal bits into the air. After which they will land in places you cannot control. Maybe in your robot's electrical system, maybe in another team's. You should be using a vacuum, not a blower, to remove small debris from your robot.
See also this post by Dave Lavery several years ago.
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