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Re: Pre-filling stored air

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
There's little reason for the 1.1CFM limit on the compressor aside from a conscious choice by the GDC to limit how quickly you can store energy in the form of compressed air. That being the case, you'll see free stored energy available field side about the time the GDC removes the flow limits on robot compressors. I'm not holding my breath for that.

Also, teams misunderstand the bumper rules every year too. It's still unlikely the GDC is going to back off on them because looser bumper rules mean both flimsier bumpers and more teams engineering bumpers for a competitive advantage like wedging.
I don't see how flow limits are at all relevant to FIRST providing an air charging station. You still have the same flow limits once the match has started. The analogy about bumpers doesn't make any sense. It's nowhere near a comparable situation.

It's currently free energy. You just have to swap batteries to do it. It makes far more sense to just quit all the worrying about shop compressors in the pits and whether teams are using offboard compressors correctly and provide a compressor that every team uses to fill up before the match. Every robot is functionally identical when it is set on the field as it would be currently.
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