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Re: How to improve power in piston shooter

As stated, it would really depend on your current setup, but my team also went through trying to increase range w/ pneumatic and these the fixes that helped us:

1. Higher air-flow solenoids.
2. If you are using some sort of level arm, extend the arm.
3. Leaving the return side of the pistons open to vent to the air, and have the pistons return some other way (ex: surgical tubing, vacuum, ect.).
4. We had a separate air tank for each piston on our shooter, thus adding more air volume on the 60 psi side.
5. If possible, mount solenoids directly to each piston

Here are some ideas that either didn't help us or didn't apply in our situation, but may benefit you:

1. Adding more pistons.
2. Increasing piston bore.
3. Assisting the pistons (ex: surgical tubing, spring, ect)

Hope this helps,
-Nick
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