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Re: Methods of adding ballast to underweight robots

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Originally Posted by spazdemon548 View Post
If you are using pneumatics, you can put as many cylinders (not to be confused with accumulators) on as you want. If you hook them up to your 60 psi side, you will gain extra air storage while solving your weight issue.
Please don't do this. While I don't see anything in the rules to make it explicitly illegal, I consider it closer to the bad side of the "cheating" vs. "clever engineering" scale. The rules do say not to use extra tubing for this purpose, and I'd use that as an indication of the intent of the rules.