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Re: Actual 120 PSI for Storage

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Originally Posted by JesseK View Post
The software for pneumatics is pretty sweet - plug everything in, initialize something and away it goes.

The problem is, the cutoff of the automated switch happens anywhere between 110 and 115 PSI. How are teams able to get 120 PSI of storage volume? Is that switch adjustable?

(caveat - I haven't done more than a cursory look over pneumatic rules since 2011, which is when the electronics team took over that duty).
Try different switches until you find one that is set a bit higher.

As far as I know, there's no way to adjust them.
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