Q&A 365 - important pneumatic ruling

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

I believe this is different from what we saw last year, and something teams should probably be aware of. If I had to guess, they determined that connecting it through tubing is a safety issue, as it's much easier to block tubing (by getting pinched, for example... think of a garden hose with a kink in it) than it is to block a brass T fitting connected straight to the compressor.

Cue the over-hyped outrage we've seen from other Q&A rulings so far this year...

Originally Posted by 2013 Game Manual

4.1.10.12 R86
The relief valve must be attached directly to the compressor or attached by legal fittings connected to the compressor
output port. If using an off-board compressor, an additional relief valve must be included in the high pressure side of
the pneumatic circuit on the ROBOT.

Same rule as last year.

In fact I'm pretty sure this rule has been the same since they began allowing any COTS compressor besides the original Thomas one, which had two output ports (relief valve had to be attached to one of the two outputs) so the rule in its current form was not necessary.