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Originally Posted by MetaEngineer
If you will not be shifting gears often, consider an onboard air tank, regulator, solenoid valve, and air cylinder shifters. This loses the weight and space of the compressor. Further weight savings can come from moving the regulator offboard as well, at the cost of only having 60 PSI in the tank and steadily declining shift performance throughout the match. Some experimentation would be in order to determine how fast you would use air and at what point the system would fail to shift under load.
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Also, consider running shifting at <60 PSI. Some experimentation may be necessary to find an optimal lower-pressure shift, but it would be legal, in my non-official opinion, to use the R90 setup and exploit R87 to run lower pressure in the entire shifting system, making a single (plastic) tank last longer without an extra regulator.
I will say that if you aren't shifting often, you can probably get away with one 120PSI tank, for one match, at least. 1197 ran that setup (offboard compressor, 120PSI stored) last year with no issues.
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