Hello,
I have a question that I could not find an answer to in the Pneumatics Manual, the 2017 Handbook, or on Cheif Delphi. May you turn on the compressor mid match to re pressure your tanks?
Thanks
The compressor should automatically turn on when the pressure drops below a threshold. It is perfectly legal as long as the compressor is wired correctly.
Yes. Here is the screensteps page for compressor programming. You just wire directly to the PCM. The game manual also has some diagrams and this screensteps may help.
Absolutely legal as long as it is wired to the PCM correctly. We used it and ran it several times mid match without flaw all season.
It’s perfectly legal to run it during a match, but we found that it lead to too much voltage draw along with everything else, so we stuck to only running the compressor before each match. This ensured that the pressure was always above threshold.
Just in case it was necessary to run it in an emergency, we put it on a switch controlled at the drivers station.
Joey Mirabelli, 101
Nothing at all wrong with it. In fact, in 2015 our compressor would run for 80-90% of the match. Not exactly healthy, (compressor started getting so toasty we made a cooling system for it) but it’s acceptable.
In fact, this can save you some space in terms of not having to need as many air tanks (you don’t need to have enough for the full match). I will say that for critical situations where air is not needed, you should turn it off programmatically (e.g. when climbing this year, it’d be a good idea).
We’ve always just done it this way. The compressor pops on and off as needed. We did put code in to disable the compressor when climbing so that maximum current can be routed to the climber motor, just in case the compressor picked a bad time to try to turn on.