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Re: Solenoid Not Working

Are you supplying proper voltage to the solenoid?

Our team had similar symptoms; Solenoid lights, no action.

The Festo solenoids/valves we got from FIRSTchoice need 24V. The PCM jumper is set to a default of 12 V. We moved the jumper to 24 V, solenoid worked.

PCM jumper is on top center of PCM.
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