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Re: (New)matics advice

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Originally Posted by Ari423 View Post
In FRC (as far as I've seen), there is generally no reason to use more complicated double solenoids over single solenoids unless you are working with 3-position solenoids
In 2015, we used double solenoids for things like the ingestor arms so that they couldn't close into a stack when the match ends but start closed if we wanted. We also used one on the arm tilting mechanism since we had to start with the arm tilted back but don't want it to change position when the match ends.
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