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Re: Flow control?

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Originally Posted by IndySam View Post
#2 Keep your tubing runs as short as possible (even go as far as plumbing the solenoid right to the cylinder.
#4 Use low side storage tanks as close to the solenoid as possible.
Anything to get that air going as fast as possible into that cylinder.
To this end, if you wanted to be really extra nutty, get a solenoid with 1/8" NPT ports, with the highest CV you can find, plumb the output directly to the cylinder with brass fittings or pipe nipples (I think pipe nipples might count as fittings?). Also plump a large low side reservoir directly to the input of the solenoid. Yes it'd be big and bulky, but it'd also get you the fastest actuation possible.
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