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Re: pneumatic tubing swelling

I'll confirm the suggestion to add a fan, blowing across the compressor, to solve this problem. The duty cycle of the compressor is only 9%, which means you need to let it cool for eleven times as long as you run it. This time of year, we typically are working on the robot, and testing stuff...running it for five minutes at a time is typical, and doing this will over heat the compressor, unless you add active cooling. It doesn't take much to keep it cool, one of those square fans at least 100mm across should do it.