Thread: Pneumatic Restrictions & Improvments
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Re: Pneumatic Restrictions & Improvments
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Originally Posted by magnets View Post
First of all, pneumatics restrictions were lessened by a lot this year. The CV of the valve restriction was removed.

The reason the GDC limits CV is for safety. If we had unlimited CV, and someone were to put their head against a medium to large size pneumatic cylinder, and it is accidentally actuated, the person would die.
Even with our current systems that could happen, 2in bore cylinder with 60PSI behind it is a lot of force. Also some spring punchers were just insane in amount of stored energy.

Basically the hose (1/4) and the 1/8 NPT rule limits the "power available".

Personally I want to be able to use a 3000PSI CF paintball tank/regulator so I never have to charge air at a competition but I don't think that's happening anytime soon.
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