Legality of using a pressure sensor on the high pressure circuit?

[Tristan Lall]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

I know we've used transducers on the the high pressure side in the past...

In some earlier games, this was permitted. (See the diagram on page 26 of the 2005 robot rules.)

Originally Posted by dtengineering

I'll echo the suggestion to submit a Q&A... it seems silly to outlaw a useful instrument such as this.

I completely agree that transducers should be allowed on the high-pressure side. In fact, I'd go further and say they should be allowed in place of the Nason switch.

There's no huge difference between reading a digital input for the Nason switch, and reading an analogue one for a conventional pressure transducer. The internal mechanical logic of the Nason can be accurately represented with a transducer and a snippet of built-in code.