Chief Delphi - Hanging w/ pneumatics

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Originally Posted by Greg Perkins

hey elgin, i dont know if you all heard about the rechargable circuit? basically, you go from your compressor, to a tee fitting, from the bottom part of the Tee, go to your double solenoid. where it comes out, go to the bottom fitting on your cylinder. then run your other tube from the fitting on the top of the cylinder, to the other fitting on that tee. the reslult is when it goes up, it will go slowly, but when it retracts, it gets 120psi, doubleing the pressure...and its all LEGAL!!!

if you come to any of the off season events, be sure to stop by 134, we have a schematic of it.

Rule 54 in Section 5 - "The Robot", second bullet: "Working" air pressure on the robot must be no greater than 60 psi. All working air must come from the Norgen adjustable pressure regulator, and all other pneumatic components must be downstream from this regulator...

In other words, your system is blatantly illegal. First, you're wiring the compressor straight to your piston. Even if this is a slipup, and you meant after the regulator, your later statement that you retract with 120 psi would be blatantly illegal as well. All working air pressure must be below 60 psi.

As far as the topic of the post goes, we hang pneumatically with 80/20 slides. It works well, especially because we have the compressor on automatic. The piston's really air-hungry, but having the compressor on automatic solves that problem.