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Originally Posted by MrForbes
be sure to figure in the little bit of extra effort required to make sure the tank is full before each match. And the fun of having a small leak that drains the storage tank during a match, but if you had a compressor on board, it would not be a problem. We had offboard compressor our rookie year (mainly because no one was keeping track of weight and the robot was way over weight), but on board ever since. I'm a fan of KISS and that means making it easy for the drive team, by not making them do any extra work.
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I can't reiterate this enough. If you are running an offboard compressor you'd best be sure you've removed your leaks. First few matches of the day and they want your robot on the field or queued up before opening cermeonies? Someone having field connection issues or the field sits with your robot for 30+ minutes? Made it to Einstein and your robot is put on the field ready to play and you only have to wait for a small speech by Dean before you get going? That small leak adds up.
The Viair compressors are small and weigh around 2.4 lbs. At that size I'll take the peace of mind and removal of another step from the drive team's checklist over the weight savings.