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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz
Safety is our first priority. If the venue requires really tight quarters in the queue, then they may ask (The LRI is the messenger) teams to remove any air in the expectation that injuries will be minimized. If your robot moves when pressurized, I would ask you to wait to pump up. If you consistently demonstrate an unsafe condition, the LRI, FTA and UL Safety people will visit you with suggestions up to and including disabling the offending parts until you can correct the condition. (See R9)
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This confuses me. So teams with offboard compressors can't use pneumatics at some venues? If there is a rule at these venues to dump all air in queueing, there is no opportunity to fill the tanks and change the battery between queueing and being on the field for the match. Not to mention how this hurts teams that take more than 2 minutes to fill their air tanks. If this is a constraint teams should expect to ever have to deal with, it should be in the rules so that teams don't design robots that are disadvantaged in these scenarios.
I know you're just the messenger, talking about rules at specific events, but this just seems like a really big deal at first glance. I think I'm misunderstanding the situation here.