13-01-2012, 14:22
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Mad Scientist
AKA: Me
 FRC #2040 (DERT) Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Rookie Year: 2003
Location: Peoria, IL
Posts: 1,979
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Re: pneumatics or motors?
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Originally Posted by tetravaal
I dont think that will work very well Daniel.. We tried something like that on the 1st day, and the output port limits the speed at which the cilinder will react.. Very unimpressive.. Now if you could open one side with a huge port, that would be a different ball game..
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Tell that to the pneumatic shooter we have in our lab 
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Originally Posted by IndySam
Arghhh, so many mentions of "pistons" in one thread! Sorry guys but that's one of my pet peeves, the correct term is cylinders.
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IndySam is right (mostly) ... although I prefer the term 'Pneumatic Linear Actuator'
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