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Re: Solenoid is teh fail

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod View Post
This test bothers me, because the 2009 Festo was wired differently than earlier years. The results you saw could easily mean the 2009 Festo wiring was on pins 1&2 rather than 1&3, or vice-versa.
You were right, we had the wiring wrong. We got the 2009 valve to work wiring it to 1 & 3. We're double checking the 2010 valve now.

EDIT: Seems the guy who wired the 2009 solenoid wrong had the plumbing wrong on the 2010 solenoid. We put the line coming from the tanks into the center of the side with 3 inputs, then connected the back and front of the cylinder to the side with only 2 inputs. The exhausts comes out of the left and right side of the side with 3 inputs. This means we have to fire the separate solenoids to make it go in or out, but at the moment we only have 3 connectors, so this is our only option.

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