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Re: Mulit-postioning with pnuematics this year?

We set up this multi positioning system the way it was prescribed in that funny little drawing. It was a success. After putting a few flow controls in different places to adjust the speed and everything, it was great! It's not very hard to program it. If you set it up and look at it, you'll see that it's somewhat simple. We had an extra guage on the portion of the system that was being "looped." It does indeed sometimes go a little over 60. However, it was only a couple of PSI and you can give up a few from your main regulator to take care of that and you won't lose that much force.

A suggestion to improve the design... If you put an air tank in series with the exhausts that lead into the single solenoid, it will dampen the effect of opening it and allow you to better control the movement. You would have to precharge it in order for that to work, but I just wanted to throw that in there in case anyone was having trouble getting it to work well. The flow controls are the best way to go.

Anybody plan on using this?
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