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Originally Posted by Trey178
What is your supply set-up like? What was your air pressure and what solenoids did you use for such quick air flow?
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I don't know a whole lot of pneumatics stuff, we have a member that's super into it so we just kinda rely on him
From what I remember though (and I may be wrong), we filled up a tank to 120 psi then used 60 psi to extend the piston. In the video we just opened a valve mechanically. We had better success with two separate pistons hooked up to two separate solenoids though, actually hit the ceiling and nearly doubled the distance, not sure what solenoids we used but we didn't buy anything new to do it and we don't meet till friday so I can't really give more info than that. Like Jeffy pointed out though, the orientation of the piston at the beginning likely allowed the pressure to build up.
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Originally Posted by camalex3999
When we tried it today we only put air to one side and it extended too slow
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You may want to try something other than a piston. Seems like most teams are going with motors. Another idea is to use a nautilus cam gear like that robot in 3 days team that didn't finish, or to see a functioning one look at
robowranglers from 2010