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Originally Posted by Michael Hill
... why limit compressors?
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Motor racing would be a different competition if its rules allowed unlimited fuel. Soccer would be a different sport if its rules allowed unlimited substitutions. Launching a competitive new product would be much less challenging if not for (usually unavoidable) limits on budget, schedule, and engineering resources.
Limits are part of the challenge. Without them, life would be boring.
The "one and only one" compressor rule puts a limit, based on rates of air flow and temperature rise, on the energy that can be used during a match by an FRC robot's pneumatic system. Matches might be made more interesting (or even more challenging) if that limit were raised -- but they would surely become less interesting if the limit were completely removed.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)