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Re: Help Calculating time to recharge air tanks

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
You need enough storage so that you can disable the compressor during periods of high current draw and still have enough pressure to operate pneumatics during those (hopefully not too prolonged) blackout periods.


I suppose saving that little bit of current could help.

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Originally Posted by clicato100 View Post
Bit of an aside, I think for many pneumatic shooters last year, the closer your reservoir of air approached "infinite" the higher sustained pressure you maintained at the cylinder throughout the shot.

I believe some students on my team have some interesting graphs we made of "real-time" pressure at the cylinder inlet throughout the shot varying the amount of reservoir tanks both HP and LP side, but besides the point...
Those plots would be most interesting to see.
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