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Re: Risk of the Lift?

I thought there was something fishy about my math. I didn't care that much cause my team HAS used this cylinder in the past to lift our bot (one just one, not two or three but one, and it was even in the pulling orientation). It can lift a 130-pound bot.

The problem we had was that it used our entire air storage to retract the cylinder half way and then there was a wonderful time period when the robot would inch up as the compressor slowly lifted the robot off the floor. I would strongly suggest teams don't use this option unless it is the only pneumatics they use. These cylinders just use too much air. Our team is going to use motors to raise our lift and pneumatics is going to be used in very small operations (like latches and so on...)