How to inflate trackball?

[dani190]

Originally Posted by Maggie27

It's at the very bottom of the Kit of Parts list.

Ok thank you very much

[octothorpe]

You should be forewarned that inflating the whole trackball with just the KOP compressor takes a long time, probably 15 or 20 minutes. Our team got impatient and wired 4 compressors from previous years' kits together in parallel off a robot battery. We connected the output nozzles together with tubing and T-fittings to get the equivalent of 4x the rate of compressed air.

[team1203 4life]

Originally Posted by octothorpe

You should be forewarned that inflating the whole trackball with just the KOP compressor takes a long time, probably 15 or 20 minutes. Our team got impatient and wired 4 compressors from previous years' kits together in parallel off a robot battery. We connected the output nozzles together with tubing and T-fittings to get the equivalent of 4x the rate of compressed air.

all that work propbly took longer then it would have to wait for the ball to blow up

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by octothorpe

You should be forewarned that inflating the whole trackball with just the KOP compressor takes a long time, probably 15 or 20 minutes. Our team got impatient and wired 4 compressors from previous years' kits together in parallel off a robot battery. We connected the output nozzles together with tubing and T-fittings to get the equivalent of 4x the rate of compressed air.

Equally effective is connecting 4 freshman in parallel (You can try to connect them in series but they probably won't appreciate it).

[synth3tk]

Yes, KOP compressors are not very time effective. Sad part was, our mentor kept telling them he has a compressor in the other room, but they insisted on sitting there, waiting.

Also, I never thought about the four freshmen idea. Good thing to know...