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Re: Optimizing Air Cannon Range

It sounds like a similar setup to ours. We just make sure that all tubing, pipe diam's are at least 3/4" or more. We operate ours at about 80-90 psi and we get 3 or 4 good shots off with it. However we haven't launched any t-shirts with it yet, just foam soccer balls and footballs. We get 50 to 100 feet reliably. I highly suggest placing a pressure indicator on it so you can better tune your shots. We hooked up the old analog pressure sensor (TI) that was in the kit a few years ago (2004 ?) and hooked it into the analog port of the robot controller. Next we'll modify the program so that the operator interface will indicate with the Feedback LEDs if it's too low of a pressure or something along those lines.

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