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Originally Posted by jp1247
We (1247) did this last year with a standard bimba two position cylinder for angling our shooter. Applying full working pressure on both sides simultaneously holds the cylinder at that position. Add magnetic reed switches and viola. We used a 1" cylinder I believe, very hard to move by hand, and worked very well. (only thing did on that bot :/)
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The bimba cylinders are available in stainless steel and a magnetic plunger that can be detected by the reed switches mentioned above. Every order to bimba of mine spec'd the magnetic model but our team has yet to use any. Sorry to say I'm short of real-world experience on how hard it is to detect the transition point. Oh yeah, you get three free, so why not experiment a bit?