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Unread 03-02-2010, 21:03
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Lightbulb Re: Solenoids not activating when energized

Ok, so have you ever had one of those moments when you just want to V-8 slap yourself and everybody else in the room who has been panicing? Well I have...tonight to be exact...so *shuffling feet and looking at the floor*...evidently we had two problems...First we had our polarities wrong on our connectors...AND...the battery we were using was just powerful enough to give us lights but not quite powerful enough to actually fully energize the solenoids (who knew pneumatics could use so much power...oh yeah...probably someone on Delphi...) SO thanks everyone for all the advice and making sure we had quadruple checked the wiring...
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