Team 254 2013 FRC Code

[feverittm]

Regarding the legality of pressure transducers on the high side. This was a question I asked directly to the QA and was told that they are illegal. Pretty clear there. If you read the rules it states the the ONLY things allowed on the high side are the compressor, high-pressure gauge, pressure relief valve, storage tanks and the regulator. Nothing else. However, as someone else pointed out it was not checked very well and teams got away with it in a number of instances.

The Vlair compressor has a 9% duty cycle rating that makes it very difficult to use on a pneumatic intensive robot as it will tend to overheat. I have heard of instances where teams have gotten away with running them for awhile, but I have also heard many stories where these compressors have failed as well. I cannot guarantee that the CheesyPoofs used the 090C or found a better model, but I was just going by the pictures I have seen. Educated guess, no assumptions.

(sorry for being off-topic).

Another item of the code the I will have to spend a long time trying to digest is the large number of 'controller' classes that are used. Not just a simple PID controller, but a number of other things (like the StateSpaceController). It is going to take awhile to unwrap this code in my brain.

Again Thanks!

Enjoy!