pic: 4901 won't run out of air this season. That's for sure.

[orangemoore]

Originally Posted by JohnFogarty

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.

Finals Could Be a problem if you have to fix something during that time.

[JohnFogarty]

Originally Posted by orangemoore

Finals Could Be a problem if you have to fix something during that time.

Having been through elims at orlando last year, I think we should be fine. We wouldn't need a full charge to be effective either. The number of actuations we get from a half charge is at the minimum of what we'd need to score around 100+ points by ourselves.

Our goal with this design was extreme simplicity and speed. Come reveal night you should see that we've achieved just that.