CRIO Pnuematics Module

[Canon reeves]

So our team had a fairly last minute design and didn't start wiring the pnuematics till yesterday and we finished everything, except we don't have solenoid module that goes on the CRIO pnuematics module, we have everything done except one that. We have it where when we enable it pistons go out from the solenoid, but we can only pull them in manually. We were wondering if it was reasonable to put one on at competition and go from there? As in would there be enough time to do it all? I know what wiring it takes, just not what programming. We have it all programmed because we had another team help us we just don't have that last piece. Any ideas on what we could do? Thank you!

[Wren Hensgen]

Are these 12 or 24 volt solenoids? If they're 12 volts, you can use a spike to trigger each one of them. 225 used a pair of spikes to trigger our shooter actuation last year.

It would also help to know what kind of solenoids you're using on your robot this year.

[FrankJ]

You can prepare all the wire in advance so you only have to wire the solenoid breakout. (The piece that plugs into the crio module). You can test your software without the breakout by observing the IO lights on the Crio output module.

With preplanning very easy to do at the competition.

[Canon reeves]

Ok, thank you! It is a 24 volt solenoid, everything is ready to go, so we will just put on a solenoid breakout at comp. Thanks and good luck this season!