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Re: Mounting compressor upside down
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Originally Posted by 2544HCRC View Post
We are mounting our compressor upside down this year under the robot. In final testing we weren't getting the pressure up above about 80 psi from the compressor. I was wondering if other teams have done this?
We had a situation where the compressor would not get above 60 psi. Spent hours troubleshooting various items. Turned out that every component in the system was operating fine. It was the system itself that was the problem. A hose bypassed the regulator, in effect turning the whole system into a low pressure system.

I know, incredibly stupid of us to do that. And somewhat subtle to diagnose and troubleshoot.

Check to see that the high side all feeds into the proper side of the regulator, and all of the low/working side feeds from the output side of the regulator, and that no hose bypasses the regulator.
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