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Re: Request a Re-Write of the Wire Color Rule for 2013.

I agree with you about sensor wires or wires carrying some arbitrary low amount of current whatever that might be. It would be so much easier to use ribbon cables for those control functions...

One of the issues is that many of us have 24 volt solenoids and they cannot be controlled via the spikes...It is harder to find 12 volt solenoids in commercial applications for some reason.... We always have two pneumatic shifters (controlled via one solenoid) so it is a tradeoff for us... but we usually use 2-3 more pneumatics along with the shifter...
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