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Re: pic: 4901 won't run out of air this season. That's for sure.
We did a lot of math on the volume of air our Cylinders use per stroke and we found that an air tank with volume like this is almost a necessity.
The tank is 15 LBS. (I am aware of the light weight version at harbor freight and we'll keep that in mind if weight is problem, which at the moment our robot is about 30 pounds under weight without the tank on.
Our plan was to use the compressor off-board. If we needed extra weight...on it would go. The compressor is also roughly 15 pounds.
100% Duty cycle at 100 PSI. Charge time is 5 minutes from empty to full. We don't need to empty the system after every match. We would only do so in the times where we needed to. I also checked the rules for that.
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2010 FTC World Championship Winner & 2013-2014 FRC Orlando Regional Winner
Mentor FRC Team 1102 M'Aiken Magic
"Head Bot Coach" FTC Team 11444 Garnet Squadron
Former Student & Mentor FLL 1102, FTC 1102 & FTC 3864, FRC 1772, FRC 5632
2013 FTC World Championship Guest Speaker
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FIRST is not all about the robot, it's about the experience. Don't sour yours by whining about it later. - StephLee [more] 
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