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Layout of off-board compressor (featuring sweet pics)

Our team is doing an off-season build competition that may involve pneumatics, but we don't have a compressor for every team. This means doing an off-board compressor design, but I can't find much info on how to actually do that.

Here's the standard pneumatic layout:


If I charge the system and simply remove the compressor, the air just escapes.


So what if I put a valve after the compressor?


That way when the system is charged, I close it, then remove the compressor.


Only one problem: if I accidentally leave the valve closed when I charge, I'm going to be charging just 6" of tube, and I'm going to have a bad time.


We have the emergency relief valve on the compressor, but I'd rather not rely on that. How are you "supposed" to do it?