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Re: Ramp alternatives?

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Originally Posted by Ryan O View Post
A lift could be kept up after ower is turned off if it is a pneumatic piston on a dual action solenoid. These solenoids have three positions: extend (fwd = 1, rev = 0), middle(fwd = 0, rev = 0), which doesn't change the current state, and reverse(fwd = 0, rev = 1). Turning off the bot should only put the fwd and rev to zero, leaving an extended lift extended and judgable.
But would the robot have to be turned back on to get the other robots off the field?
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