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Originally Posted by Michael Hill
I'm not sure why FIRST would try to choose to take any advantage a team has away from compressors. It seems somewhat inconsistent with many other things. For example, the Thomas 215 compressor is also a legal compressor, but costs A LOT more, but is definitely more capable than the standard Viair 90C. There will always be an advantage for teams with more money unless the rules explicitly specify every part, which is unreasonable. We already have a rule in place to limit advantages from more wealthy teams, the BoM cost limit. We don't limit the number of batteries or chargers teams can bring to the competitions, so why limit compressors?
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Exactly, if the intent of the rule is to prevent two compressors being on the robot at once, then enforce that, but I can't think of any rational reason to prevent a team from using an external compressor to pre-charge a system with another compressor on the robot prior to a match so long as all other rules are followed and only one of the compressors is running at any given time. You're not preventing anything that couldn't be accomplished with a more expensive compressor.
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