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Re: Precharging

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
A team this weekend had two 3/4" bore and maybe 36" stroke to raise a climber.
Last year we used (2) 1" diam. 24" stroke cylinders to lift the totes IIRC. We ended up with 10 black clippard tanks (we would have out more but we ran out of weight), which lasted us almost the whole match at ~30 psi up, ~15 psi down (with the compressor running). It then took over 5 minutes in the pits or in queue to recharge. If we weren't allowed to precharge before we got on the field (or even if we only got one match in queue to precharge) we would have essentially had a brick with wheels for a robot.
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