Thread: 2006 pneumatics rules - my rant
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Re: 2006 pneumatics rules - my rant
Yes, I personally would like to see FIRST in support of at least more multi-positioning with pneumatics. I think my team has driven multipositioning w/ what we are allowed to it's edge.
I would feel like more teams could say "Yes, we use pneumatics for our arm...lift etc."
In 2005, we completely ran our arm off of a 24" stroke bimba cylinder. We had a mid-stroke positioning system integrated, and used reed switches to locate the arm to preset positions. The system worked pretty well, but would've worked even better had the "door been opened" a bit...
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