Thread: Slowing a piston with full power
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Re: Slowing a piston with full power
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Originally Posted by Andrew Schuetze View Post
A quick study would seem to indicate that one would only need to constrict the flow of air entering the piston on the stroke one wants to limit the speed as the other side is open the atmosphere and just vents. However, taking this to an extreme limit though, if you completely or nearly completely close the needle valve on the vent side then is will limit the flow significantly and slow things down.

So here is my question, is it possible to use various settings on valves on both ends such that on the out stroke you have one speed and then on the in stroke a significantly different speed. a.ka. out - slow .... in - faster

Thanks,

APS
This would be possible, but you would need to mount the needle valves at the solenoid exhaust ports to be effective. If you mount the needle valves on the cylinders, air flow will be throttled in both directions which would prevent varying the speed per cylinder direction.