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Re: Pre-filling stored air
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Originally Posted by Cory
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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It's not unlimited free energy. There's a definite difference between the amount of air you can compress between finals matches with a 1.1 cfm 12v pump and the amount of air a $300 120v compressor can generate. I'll grant you that's something like 10 standard tanks, but still. Wishing for free compressed air is about like wishing for a bigger battery. It could happen some day, but only when the GDC wants to increase our power budget.
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