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Re: Are Fans Pneumatic Devices?

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Originally Posted by rsisk View Post
Serious question....

The fan is not a pneumatic device
but the tube being filled with air is

right?
The full explanation of "pneumatic device" leads to the a definition where a machine uses compressed air to do work.

I think the attempted "discussion" was more about whether it is worth $188 or more to measure the air inside the tube in order to determine if the smidgen of increase in pressure due to the fan even registers on the tool (which has a margin of error of a lot) that may then be used to say that this particular device generates more compressed air (that is accurately measurable) than any of its other "devices" through normal play.

It's pedantic and demeaning to the team which took the idea from concept through to to a working point-scoring mechanism.
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