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Unread 19-04-2004, 22:08
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Re: pic: what do you think?

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Originally Posted by patrickrd
Looks good to me You just need to figure out a way to get the piston to stop mid-stroke... Maybe two pistons in series?? (don't know if anybody's every tried that ). There's probably quite a few clever mechanisms to do the trick.

- Patrick
I would use a single and double solenoid(multi-positioning pnuematics) with three magnectic reed switches to stop you at the correct positions.

I would presume this would work quite well. I'm not as familiar with the programming side of it but it seems to me that this could be done.

Last edited by ngreen : 19-04-2004 at 22:11.