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Originally Posted by sanddrag
We use only one air tank and the smallest possible cylinders and no compressor so we get by.
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This is what we did this year. And boy oh boy was it annoying.
Oh, sure the mechanism worked fine. I had no trouble with how it all worked. But the FIRST rules regarding off-board compressors were ridiculous.
At our first regional we got into trouble with the inspectors, who made us install a fan and a spike to the off-board compressor.
What controlled that spike you ask? Why the robot of course. We had to lug our compressor out on the field, turn on the robot, hook the compressor to the robot, charge our tanks, unhook the compressor. It was ridiculous.
I don't know if anyone else experienced this. Or if there is some totally logical reason for doing it that I am missing. But I felt this rule to be a little silly.