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Re: FRC488 Pneumatic Catapult

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Originally Posted by Madison View Post
We plan on varying the flow rate to the actuators. We haven't quite nailed down an implementation yet, but we think we can do it pretty easily.

In our testing, we were able to manually adjust the flow and got similar consistency from the fender out to about 22'. The concept is sound, we just need a mechanical solution that is repeatable.
I remember a whitepaper last year that mentioned using a hi-tech servo on a pressure regulator... that would be my suggestion.
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