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Re: Parallel or Series, which is better?

When charging the tanks it would not matter. You will be restricted by the tubing. Discharging the tanks may be a different story. If you wanted to fire four cylinders at the same time as fast as possible, would it make sence to have the tanks in parallel? It seems as though if you feed four valve/cylinder combinations through four pieces of tubing with each one connected to a different tank verses a single piece of tubing feeding air through a single valve teed to four cylinders that the volume of air would be less resticted. Has anyone ever tried this? The amount of brass, valves and regulators of doing this would take a large piece out of your weight budget. I am not sure if this type of setup is legal. It is just an idea at this time.