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Originally Posted by muffinofsteel
My team isn't too terribly pneumatic-heavy, unlike the cheesy poofs(see their 2014 robot). We also store air before the match, and try to avoid running the compressor constantly during a match. A way we get around not running it constantly is having more air tanks, giving us more air to work with between the compressor turning on.
Out of curiosity what compressor did you use last year, and how often were you actuating cylinders?
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IIRC we used the smaller thomas compressor. We only used 3 tanks and the only air intensive actuation we did was lowering and raising the utility arm. Sometimes we avoided the CDF for a cycle to let our tanks charge a little more since doing the CDF could require 3 actuations (raise-lower-raise). This was an unusual situation since normally we would throw more tanks on but we didn't have the space or weight to do so this year. That being said the only time where we truly felt like we didnt have enough air is when we smashed off a fitting and vented all of our air. Otherwise the compressor was able to keep up with our air usage without issue.