Thread: Off robot air compressor
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Re: Off robot air compressor
That is one drawback of pneumatics as far as we are concerned.

To use pneumatics, you are required to have on your bot the cylinder, solenoid valve, compressor, tanks, gauge and anything else for your system.

The bad thing is that all that is added into your weight.

If you need one little cylinder on your bot, you are talking 10lbs just for the system to run it.

Sometimes it's not even worth it.

That's why we scrapped pneumatics this year in lieu of motors this year.
We actually saved weight.
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