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Re: Are Fans Pneumatic Devices?

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Originally Posted by Chris is me View Post
You're not really addressing the points people are bringing up here - "compressed air that does work" isn't really being created here. Air isn't being compressed - it's flowing. This air is pushing outward as it is flowing through a somewhat constricted opening, but it is not really being compressed. If you are really saying "there is no minimum PSI limit" and that literally any change in air pressure constitutes a pneumatic device, then this would apply to any fan (including those integral to motors / speed controllers), spoked wheel (flywheel shooters move a LOT of air around), etc. Such an absolutist position is just ridiculous.
If the whole robot drives into a tube with a flap at the other end, it would, for a split second increase the air pressure in the tube.
So is the whole robot a pneumatic device?
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