Question for onborad compressor teams

[marshall]

Originally Posted by mman1506

We had a ton of issues with blowing the fuse on the PDB while using a Thomas compressor off the PCM. We had to be pulled off the field a couple of times due the fuse blowing while pre-charging. It could be that our compressor is faulty and has a exceptionally high startup current but I'd really like to see a more robust solution in the future.

Do you still have that compressor? If so then you should get in touch with Mike Copioli from CTRE. He was offering up his left arm for examples of this at the beta feedback talk IIRC.

[Ari423]

We used the small Viair as an onboard compressor off the PCM for the entire season and never ran into a problem with it once. We had a huge amount of air storage this year because your lift was completely pneumatic (2 18" throw 1.5" d pistons) so we used the compressor a lot beyond its recommended specs. Since it takes us about 3-5 minutes to charge between matches, we often ran it longer than recommended. We even ran it almost continuously for over half an hour between matches and pre-charging and never once ran into a problem.