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Re: 3 position cylinders

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Originally Posted by craigcd View Post
Reading the rules at the beginning of the season would have still lead you to the original assumption that 3 port center port closed was legal. The ruling was made 01-31-2011, 02:05 PM http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=16642 to make them illegal in the FIRST Forum Q & A. Team 2221 designed their robot after reading the original rules and had to add additional cylinders to meet the rule change.
Yeah, us too. We started off with two valves in series thinking that we were ok since only one valve's worth of air was going to the cylinder. Then, center locking was banned. At least the bimba cylinders have the same ends on them regardless of stroke length making finding the right combination easier.
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