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[ice.berg]

Originally Posted by Foster

Not to push this, but Al is pretty reasonable, he knows the rules and has helped lots of teams to come into compliance. He really wants you to excel safely. I'm sure he quoted the rules and pointed the way to compliance.

What couldn't you do to fall within the rules?

We appreciate all of Al's input on our robot, matter of fact he saved us at Milwaukee last year. So we appreciate all of his efforts.

But anyways if I remember correctly it had to do with the diagram in the rule book showing the off board compressor options. We read it as this is "what you need to have" while the rule was "this is only what you could have" off your robot for pneumatics systems. And since there were no tanks in the off board section of the diagrams, the tank was not allowed.

[Mr V]

I would definitely ask it be removed from an event I am a LRI at and if I saw it as an RI I would immediately get the LRI.

I would not allow it to be used on the practice field because we need to maintain equality. If other teams see you using it on the practice field they could easily assume that you use it to charge the tanks on the robot before taking it to the competition field. A RI or LRI can not check and make sure that you do not use it before every match.

Sometimes it is about perception.