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Re: Pneumatic Restrictions & Improvments

FIRST trusts teams on many levels. Why should we have issues trusting teams to not use a shop air compressor to fill their robot? Compared to things like bag and tag, filling your robot with an air compressor is a pretty unimportant (and relatively safe, compared to other stupid things teams have done) thing to worry about. If you're going to disallow shop air compressors, you should only allow each team to bring one battery, as they could sneak in a second battery on their robot after inspection.

FIRST only works because we trust teams not to cheat in a high school engineering competition.

Shop air compressors should never be disallowed. There are very low power versions (less than 5 amps) that should meet power limits for most competitions.