Pre-charging pneumatic air tank

[Steve W]

Originally Posted by Racer26

As long as you were only using one otherwise legal compressor at a time, I don't really see that you'd be breaking the rules to disconnect the on-board one and use an off-board one instead -- though I'm not sure what you'd hope to gain except a bunch of extra work (and perhaps save a couple minutes of run time on the on-board one). We're allowed to replace a compressor with a different one (the one and only one compressor rule doesn't intend to forbid us from replacing a failed compressor, but merely to limit us to exactly one compressor pressurizing the system), so I don't see that this sequence really violates the intent of that rule:

1. Build ROBOT with on-board compressor
2. Disconnect on-board compressor (as though to remove it and replace with a spare)
3. Connect spare compressor
4. Power-on test, let charge tanks.
5. Disconnect spare compressor
6. Reconnect on-board compressor.

As I said though, I'm really not sure why you would want to do this. Seems like a whole lot of extra work for no benefit.

Do yo really believe that this is legal? ONE and only ONE compressor is allowed to be used on the robot. If you charge with one then connect another you MUST discharge all of the air in the tanks or you would have used 2, count them, 2 compressors.

It must be that many people are using compressors for the first time and just skimmed over the rules. Some however just want to cause controversy so they are shaking the cage to see what happens.