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Spockie-Tech
Site Admin
Joined: 31 May 2004
Posts: 3160
Location: Melbourne, Australia
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"I have applied to join the American forum to ask Steve Judd if I can run my bot in Australia without a high pressure gauge"
That sounds a little cynical.. ..
I would put it that we do not presently have anyone with sufficient qualifications and/or experience in combat robot pneumatics to go modifying the standard ruleset with confidence. Hence his opinion on whether this rule can be safely deleted would be appreciated.
If you wish to volunteer for position of pneumatics advisor, can show sufficient qualifactions and experience and are willing to take responsibility for the safety of other people pneumatics systems at an event, then I will accept your opinion that the gauge is not required. If not, then I would like a second opinion from someone who I know who does fulfill all of those criteria.
" Noone uses pressure to measure liquid CO2. Liquid CO2 is measured by weight not pressure."
Yes, I am aware of that thank you.. I am not suggesting the fill gauge is in place to measure the quanitity of CO2 being filled. I thought i made it clear that I would like to be able to see that the pressure being applied to the unmonitored CO2 components (bottle and regulator) is not in excess of their ratings. A bottle explosion in the pits would not be fun.
Removal of the high pressure gauge from the bot leaves no way to verify that the high pressure side of the system is being operated within spec, other than to move the guage to the fill station and monitor the final pressure as the fill is completed. With no gauge on the fill station, and none on the bot, you could be putting 5000psi into your tanks for all I know.
If the EO was supplying the filling station and the CO2, then they could be confident that what was coming out of the tanks was normal pressure CO2, but with competitors providing their own filling tanks, I think the gauge could be important. I dont think it would be that hard for you to include the pressure guage in a T-fitting on your fill line. _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
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