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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
teams have done no-compressor designs in the past.
it works well, esp if you only have one cylinder because there are only a few connections, and its easy to check for leaks (little bit of soapy water).
If it fits into your robot concept then go for it.
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It's also handy to have the compressor connnected to a battery (safely, of course, with fusing and appropriate wire size) mounted on your transport cart. That way you can top off the air tanks while in the staging lanes right up to the last minute.
We also toyed with the idea of mounting an RV battery running a dc => ac inverter and 6A battery charger on our cart. Then we could charge our robot battery on the cart in the staging lane right up to time to take it off the cart. (Of course, we had a pretty big transport cart.
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