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Re: Number of Pneumatic Air Tanks

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
As the tank fill gets close to capacity, performance was reduced by non-trivial amount for pneumatically-dependent robots.
This is the killer. Many compressor spec sheets list CFM at a few different pressures, and you'll see with small compressors like the ones we can use, the difference in flow between 0 PSI and 60 PSI is substantial. As is the difference between 60 PSI and 120 PSI.