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Re: Mulit-postioning with pnuematics this year?

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Originally Posted by Rickertsen2
The setup isn't ideal, but you can prolyl bootleg it to work. The cylinders are fince for this, and it is done all the time but not with this type of valve. You will also need some position feedback(I don't think the reed switches will work. They are probably not fast enough.). If you try what you describe above, i would be interested to hear the results.
well, even if the new postion switches won't work at high speed, you could try and tighten the valves to slow the speed of the extention as much as possible. my qustion is do you damage the solenoid?
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