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Unread 22-01-2010, 23:21
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Re: new festo valves

Just to clarify, any debris that gets into the valve body can potentially lock it up internally. If you leave any of the ports unconnected you need to make sure it can't ever get debris in it (dirt, trash, metal files from drilling on the robot, etc). Otherwise, typically you can discharge through some small length of tubing or into a filtered output line so you can have a buffer or a protection against that.