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Originally Posted by Billfred
I am not Dave Lavery, but the inspector in me says the compressor has to be wired like it is on the robot. If you keep the required Spike and compressor off the robot, you'd make three connections to the robot in order to have a legal setup:
1) To the 20A breaker on the panel, for power
2) To a relay output on the RC, for control of the Spike
3) To the pneumatics system, for obvious reasons.
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We have the Spike on the robot, so our power is already controlled. But in order to make the Spike work, we also have to tether the robot to an OI.
(We use a spare OI from last year, with no switches or joysticks connected to it, but it works to let the RC run and control the compressor.)