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Re: Re: Pneumatics/Control cookbook?

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The single solenoids should be coupled to separate spikes, unless you can (legally) tie the solenoids to ground and to one terminal each on the one (blue) spike. On the blue spike, if fwd and rev are both 0, the two terminals are grounded; fwd makes the M+ terminal high, rev makes the M- terminal go high.

And when you look in the manual, to check if it is legal, darned if First doesn't recommend the above scheme to save spikes. :-)