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Originally Posted by TikiTech
Cooling by using canned air in a non approved method isn't safe. More than likely the trick will be illegal soon..
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Excellent point. FIRST goes bananas about safety. There is a safety animation, a safety award, a safety manual, safety inspectors, and tons of safety rules on the robot. I understand the need for safety, but FIRST should be consistent with how they make calls like this. Why should canned air, used in an unrecommended situation be considered perfectly fine, while using an air compressor or a flap grinder in its recommended configuration be considered too dangerous for use in a pit?
It's not unreasonable to think that a safety inspector would call this out. FIRST seems to have given the okay on this for now since Einstein teams were visibly misusing the canned air to cool their breakers on the field, but I agree that the trick will be illegal very soon.