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Re: Run with solenoids from a spike

Sorry if I am confusing some of you it took about 15 minutes to explain to one our mentors what I wanted to do. I did find a solution to my problem though, so hopefully I can get some sleep tonight.


This setup will release all the air out of the working side of the pneumatics system while keeping the storage held if the robot is disabled, emergency stopped, or powered off.

This setup is using the FESTO VPLE18-M5H-4/2-1/4 pneumatics valve (http://team358.org/files/pneumatic/F...structions.pdf)
On the default state 1 will go to 2 and 3 will go to 4, when it is on 1 will go to 4 and 2 will go to 3. I connected 1 to the air source, 2 to a plug, 3 is open to the atmosphere, 4 is to the working end.
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