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Unread 23-09-2006, 12:37
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Re: FIRST air cannon robots PVC??

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze
This was indeed prototype 0.1. I used 8 KOP tanks in four parrallel circuits. I.e. two tanks in series feeding into a manifold with four inlets. The manifold was all 0.5" black pipe tees. I then used couplings to enlarge the opening to the 1.0" diameter for the sprinkler value. Not nearly enough air flow was generated to launch the tee shirt out of the 3.0" diameter barrel.
I'm looking at an alternative now, if that method didn't work for you I really can't see it working any differently for us especially with the same barrel.
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