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Re: Why use a manifold?

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Originally Posted by GeeTwo View Post
Based on some number crunching I did during build this year, it appeared that the fastest cylinder performance would be to have a large tank (at least twice and preferably three times as large as the cylinder capacity) on the working pressure side of the regulator, then feeding directly from the tank to the solenoid valve to the cylinder. We did not get to test this, as it turned out the valves we were using had much too low a cv for this to make a difference.
Is there a reason for this? I had heard this once our season ended and I was annoyed that we hadn't tried it to fix our shooter.
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