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Re: Charging pneumatics system before match

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz View Post
James,
You will have to convince your Lead Robot Inspector at each event you attend. I find this hard to believe without seeing it.
We've got two pistons that retract the kicker, if the latch got bumped loose without the system energized the kicker would snap open. With the system energized the kicker is held firmly in place. Does that make sense?

At least when I was a student pre-charging the pneumatics was never an issue.
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