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Unread 09-06-2006, 10:17
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Re: Pro Con

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Originally Posted by Hachiban VIII
... the inspectors made us install a fan and a spike to the off-board compressor.

...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.
I can think of reasons:

teams jumpering the compressor directly to a spare jell cell, getting the wires crosses and starting an electrical fire (no fuses)

someone getting the idea that 24V on the compressor will fill the tank twice as fast?

Someone who has never used the compressor before, thinking it runs on 120VAC?

if you dont spell out the correct way to power the compressor for off-robot use, then people are left to their own imaginations.