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Re: pic: Team 1158 Teaser

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Originally Posted by Abrakadabra View Post
Although you may pressurize the cylinders to much less than 60psi, there is no way to guarantee that a sudden drop or bump won't raise the pressure in one end of the cylinder to over 60psi due to simple mechanical force.

One possible way to satisfy this rule would be to have the top sections of all four cylinders connected to a pressure relief valve that would provide relief above 60psi (and probably add a pressure gauge as well to satisfy inspectors). However, there are still many grey areas in such a setup, and it could still be deemed an "out-of-spec" (i.e. illegal) use of the pneumatic components.

What does the community think?
The pressure regulators we've used in the past are "relieving regulators" and indeed prevent back-pressurization from mechanical force on the pistons. I don't see anything wrong here at all.
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