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Originally Posted by bobosalad
so we have solenoids controling air to other solenoids, is that a loophole? In reality the solenoid is controling the other solenoid not cylinders... Honestly First is really making this years game a game with exact robots and little variety. We based our whole arm lifting off of this! HELP OUR TEAM!
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We were using that little trick, then we found out it was illegal. Center blocking valves are also illegal. The way we got around hte lack of air control was to use two small stroke cylinders instead of one long stroke. It took some mixing and matching to get it right, but it payed off.
I'll try and take picture of what we have through the bag if you want, but you can get the idea from this:
http://www.youtube.com/user/wilsonmw04?feature=mhum
Take this as a challange instead of a setback. It changed the way we approached this new problem. It turned out that this new system made control so much easier than what we had planned to do.