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Re: How to inflate trackball?

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Originally Posted by octothorpe View Post
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).
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