2992 - "Viper" Official Reveal - Climber/Dumper

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Originally Posted by Dad1279

very nice. How large and how long does it take to fill the storage tank?

Its a 2 gallon air tank used for air bag suspension systems rated at 150 psi. It takes right at 5 minutes to fill the tank with the Thomas compressor.

We went with one big tank over 12 smaller tanks to eliminate failure and leak points. The reason we went pneumatic over linear actuators was because it was possible to build it and have tweaking time left over given our resources (we have a lot of experience with pneumatic not with actuators). Also we want reliability, and our experience with pneumatics is that they are very robust and reliable. Hopefully, we will see that continue in our games in a couple weeks.