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Re: Adding air between matches

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There isn't one.

Now, as a matter of SAFETY, it may be determined either way as to whether it's safer to vent the air or to leave it in. I can think of one or two applications where it might be safer to vent, possibly, but stuff is more likely to stay put when there's air in the system.
That's what I thought. We left our robot at school with 84psi in the tanks on Friday and came back Monday to 82 psi. We wouldn't work so hard to have a good sealed system if we had to dump it all the time. Plus, why dump pressure off if you can recharge in the pits and enter with 120 psi anyway?
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Without the cooling fan, the compressor will get so hot that it can even melt the plastic air tubing connected to it! not good.
We blew out three bits of tubing on our 2013 Ultimate Ascent robot during practice sessions; it used air for most of its climb. This blow out sounded rather like a .22 round; as Jim said, not good. Once we figured out the cause, we were able to resolve it by hard mounting more pieces to the compressor to also serve as heat sinks and moving the tubing fitting away from the compressor.
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