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Re: Filling Robot Pneumatic Systems

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Consider a system where you have 15 Cots storage tanks attached to a portion of your robot cart. These storage tanks have the mandatory emergency release ball valve and pressure gage on them. While in the pits, you run a piece of pneumatic tubing from the pressure release ball valve on your robot to the pressure release ball valve on your storage farm. Open both ball valves, and turn on the compressor.

The compressor fills both the storage farm and the robot.

Close both ball valves, pull the pneumatic tube, and keep the storage farm for the play-offs.

Would that violate a rule?
When you're hooked up this way, is there any easy way to release stored air? It sounds like your manual vent plug isn't accessibly as it's connected to your off-board storage. I also read the rules as implying that off-board storage isn't allowed - the diagrams for off-board compressors explicitly show what is allowed off-board in those situations, and storage is not included off-board. Why would storage be allowed off-board for an on-board compressor, but not be allowed off-board for an off-board compressor?
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