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Re: Automatic Gear Transition issue

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Originally Posted by adrewke View Post
Hi I am a Junior at TKO team 1351. We are using a open looped PercentVbus system with a dog clutch and duel speed gearbox. When we attempt to use the double solenoid to change gears one side of solenoids starts to fire before the other causing us to turn. Have any other teams found any ways to deal with this issue?
Pneumatics right?
If so make sure both of your lines are the same length otherwise you'll find that one will always fire an nth of a second sooner.
If you can't find a place where it makes sense to use the double solenoid and keep the lines the same length; try using two single solenoids, one on each side.
Otherwise stop, shift, then continue.

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