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Re: How do you control the length a piston will extention/retraction?

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Originally Posted by Joe Ross View Post
<R88> allowed other pneumatic valves last year. <R87> muddies the waters a little, but it was clarified in this Q/A post. http://forums.usfirst.org/showthread.php?t=8292
I wish I saw that during the build season


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Originally Posted by Jetweb
I have always been a little cautious about the legality of magnets on robots, but there are multiple magnetic position sensors out there that with a 2-way solenoid would give fairly accurate position. it was one of the ideas we talked about using for this year that we decided we didn't need.


http://www.bimba.com/Products/PositionSensingSolutions/

Or you could try a String encoder
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