Thread: Pros and Cons of Using Pneumatics
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Re: Pros and Cons of Using Pneumatics
The big problem (and the reason our team hasn't used them since 2004) is the 10lbs weight you add for your first cylinder. We've never had a great need for pnuematics, our designs have always made use of 1 or 2, if any.

The binary nature of them (esp the larger cylinders) is no longer a problem for us. We dealt with it in 2004; that arm stopped in the middle. (Albeit, the drift and equalization times could use tweaking. But it stopped half-way up.)