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Re: new festo valves

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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall View Post

Of course, you can also run multiple valves in parallel, and increase the flow of the entire system.

*According to the explanation that was provided to robot inspectors by FIRST staff.
I think there is a rule which requires every motion to be controlled by flow in exactly one valve - so two valves in parallel would not be legal. The multi-valve issue came up in a GDC response to a question from a team looking to use a three position cylinder.

Was this true in previous years?