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Re: [need help] push button cylinder/game pad controller

That's the one called a Feedback Node.
You'll see it in the palette as just an arrow, but when you paste it into a block diagram it'll have the diamond underneath it. The diamond is a way to set the initial value you want it to start with.

After you place a feedback node it will be black and you won't be able to do much with it until you tell it what data type it will be saving for you.
Follow up by adding a Boolean True or False from the Programming palette and wire it to the diamond. Then the Feedback Node will turn green, the color of boolean data types. That is what the Solenoids are expecting as inputs to the Set vi.
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