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Re: 2013 running 2 - VI air compressors legal?

We clearly don't see this as an issue of the same, or even similar magnitude. You continue to argue about how it constitutes a violation worthy of claiming a ROBOT wasn't inspected simply because its air system was pressurized by some other source, regardless of whether that source is substantially the same as the presently prescribed system or not.

You just made the argument I've heard so many times, that it needs to be supplied by the ROBOT's battery, because everyone has those, and they have a limited supply of power, so that makes it the same for everyone.

The source of the 12VDC power that powers the compressor is irrelevant in any substantial way, since I can change my battery AFTER I've pressurized the system and before the MATCH. Whether I use a robot battery, a deep cycle marine battery, or a solar fusion reactor to power it changes nothing about the ROBOT as it sits in the ARENA at the start of a MATCH, with a fresh battery and a pressurized air system.

As for the rules you cited:

G03 doesn't apply, its not an unsafe design or operation.

G05 may apply, but it IS a quick remedy, opening the air valve remedies any perceived problem that charging from an external source created, so no DISABLED ROBOT or Re-inspection necessary.

And I suggest that T06 or T08 aren't even relevant to the discussion, as I never suggested more than one compressor.

For sake of argument, though, I don't believe that the intent of the "one and only one compressor" rule is to prevent me from having equally functional, and equally legal on their own off-board compressor panels (controlled and powered by the ROBOT, in accordance with R80), but rather, its intent is to say that you are only to have one compressor provide the air at any one time. Whether this time I use compressor A and next time I use compressor B doesn't particularly matter, otherwise, what happens when one breaks during a competition?
 


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