Originally Posted by 1493kd (Post 1546329)

Take two cylinders of the same stroke that equal the stroke you currently have and mount them opposite each other, you now have a 3 position cylinder. If they are two diffrent strokes that equal the orginal stroke you have 4 positions. We switched our motor driven intake/shooter to a system like this and its is magic.

PM me if you want more info/pictures

All thanks go to Brian from 2791 for introducing this to me

Originally Posted by Ryan Dognaux (Post 1550404)

So a big thanks to Brent & 1493 here. With his advice we were able to get our 3 intake positions by using 2 large actuators and one small helper actuator. You can see our initial test here: https://youtu.be/1D2Iy8q8ayA We need a slightly longer actuator to bring it back up to full vertical but other than that we're very happy with it.

Originally Posted by Chris Endres (Post 1550416)

Looks familiar :).

Originally Posted by 1493kd (Post 1546329)

Take two cylinders of the same stroke that equal the stroke you currently have and mount them opposite each other, you now have a 3 position cylinder. If they are two diffrent strokes that equal the orginal stroke you have 4 positions. We switched our motor driven intake/shooter to a system like this and its is magic.

PM me if you want more info/pictures

All thanks go to Brian from 2791 for introducing this to me

Originally Posted by silverD (Post 1550700)

We did the same thing for our intake this year. We used a 6" and 4" cylinder mounted together to end up with a four position cylinder with 10" of stroke that when both are retracted is no longer than a 6". We retract the 6" to extend the intake to shoot and retract both the 4" and 6" to fully extend for pickup. You can see them in action in our reveal video.

Edit: should have read the second page. Looks good!

Nate