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Re: Pneumatic Restrictions & Improvments
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Originally Posted by qnetjoe
Sorry to comment so late at the party, but there are few things that I would love to see change.
1.) Require soft start valves for pneumatics on a robot. This prevents rapid influx of air when connected to high pressure source. First can get them preset to a curtain fill rate and this only applies until the system reaches pressure. I personally can think of ten ways this would make events/robots safer but it is the one that I can't that are the most important.
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I'm confused. Aren't you allowed to use a soft start valve already, since it's just another solenoid-operated valve?
Edit: Then again, since this should only apply to the case of an external compressor with external tanks, even a mechanical flow control would suffice.
-Karlis
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Last edited by kmusa : 18-08-2014 at 11:51.
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