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Re: Pneumatic Restrictions & Improvments

Sorry to comment so late at the party, but there are few things that I would love to see change.

1.) Require soft start valves for pneumatics on a robot. This prevents rapid influx of air when connected to high pressure source. First can get them preset to a curtain fill rate and this only applies until the system reaches pressure. I personally can think of ten ways this would make events/robots safer but it is the one that I can't that are the most important.

2.)require Silencers/mufflers - for the love of robots please!

3.) relax the tubing size rules to allow for running larger manifolds. Feeding a 8 position manifold with the same size tubing as the outputs really limits the effectiveness of a lot of systems. A few times, we have used multiple regulators and smaller manifolds to skirt this rule. Plus with the way the current KOP is structured a team would have to have a reason to move off the more or less standard parts. This could easily be done by an ID area rule (for example if running 8 position manifold with 8 valves the max ID = sqrt(.161^2*number of valves).

4.) allow for different pressure sensors - please let me use a sunx :-)

5.) In the future, I would love to see the pneumatics module have a pressure transducer were you would plug an air line into; just to simplify things and provide a estimated pressure. That would just be nice.

Just an idea or two