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Re: Pre-filling stored air

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Originally Posted by FRCTeam2906 View Post
We are looking at having alot of tanks on our bot this year. Can we fill our tanks before tbe match? We are hoping to complete this by using an external battery to power our on board compresser, then plug it back into the pcm (we are connecting it with anderson connectors). Is this legal or should we ask the q&a?

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Originally Posted by bEdhEd View Post
We did this in 2012, and my advice is to make sure that your pneumatic system is as leak free as possible. It is likely that you will run into the situation of a delayed match start or a timeout, and when that happened to us, we made sure to recompress after each delay.

We saw this as an inconvenience and have not opted for an offboard compressor since. This was only done because our 2012 robot was designed to be short enough to hold another robot on top of it, so there was literally no space to place an onboard compressor. Those compressors were bigger than the ones used now if I recall right.

I would only advise doing this if there is absolutely no solution to the issue of space for an onboard compressor.
Generally I agree, but did you miss OP's question?
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