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Post Re: pneumatic tubing swelling

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Originally Posted by MrForbes View Post
One of our students brought in a COTS computer fan, with a built in mounting bracket, it seems to work ok. We don't have a lot of pneumatics on our robot this year, so it won't be running the compressor often.
Be careful with this... R18 is very specific, and there was a relevant Q&A.

https://frc-qa.usfirst.org/Question/...-rather-confus

The way I read Q &A 142, you can only use a COTS Computer fan is it is part of a computing device on the robot... I don't think pulling a fan out of a computer and using only the fan is legal.
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