Help Calculating time to recharge air tanks

[MrBasse]

Originally Posted by nuclearnerd

Yeah, when it comes down to it, that's what we'll have to do. I would prefer to have a theoretical grasp of it though, so we could make intelligent choices during the design stage about how many tanks to buy, or how often we can actuate our cylinders.

The thing that everyone always seems to overlook is that adding more tanks won't make your compressor run less. It will just run for a longer period of time less times.

Kids always stress over the need to have ten tanks on the robot and then they complain that the compressor runs for the whole match. When we reduce it to three or four tanks, the compressor may run twice a match, but for only 15-20 seconds each time. Unless you need to dump 80 cubic inches of air at a time, you rarely need 80 cubic inches of storage.