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Thanks for comments.

- since it appears to be legal, yes it looks like the issue comes down to safety issues. If we have to stay with what we have, we could put a removable guard around the claw to keep people away from it both in the pit and on the way to the field.

fyi: We used singles as we would have to have spent $140 to get another 9472 card for C-Rio or put a ton of spikes (with all their 12v and pwm wiring).

Too bad you can not daisy chain the spike power feeds of spikes running solenoids together in one feed versus having to use independent 12v feeds and breakers for each 0.5 amp draws)

I do believe that in the past FIRST was suppling single solenoid valves in the kit (as we have 4 Festo singles and a couple of blue other brands in inventory that I am pretty certain we did not purchase).