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Re: Can't get pneumatics solenoids to work

Hello everyone! I am also on Fej's team.

After some more work this morning, I figured out that it was the lack of pressure that was causing the solenoids to not work properly. While the air canister had plenty of pressure, there was nothing connected to the output tube in the solenoid; therefore, the solenoid itself wasn't actually pressurized at all. As soon as we connected a piston to the output tube, the solenoids worked perfectly since they were now pressurized enough.

Thanks for all the responses! Hopefully this can help anyone else having this same issue not make the same silly mistakes we did.