[Mark Sheridan]

Originally Posted by magnets

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.

There is a version of air duster specific for cooling electronics. so they are ok to cool circuit breakers. also the air duster I buy actually says its ok to use upside down, it just warns about freezing liquid coming out and to not contact that liquid. This may be specific to the stuff I use, I don't know other air dusters.