Festo 2012 Double Solenoid

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by jbsmithtx

So, our team is re-prepping our old robot, just trying to get ready for this season... After tinkering around for a little bit, we can't seem to get our solenoid to work. The LEDs signaling which side the air should be coming out of are working, and switch when we hit the button on our controller that used to switch them. However it simply keeps putting pressure into one of the valves. Also, the manual override features works well and is the only way to make the solenoid work. What's up with this?!

A couple of questions:
1> has this valve worked before (do you know it was good)
2> Is it a 12 or 24 volt valve (and is it plugged into the proper voltage)
3> are you supplying the common port with air (this should be port 1). If you are not then when the valve switches the pressure might not go where you want it to
4> are you giving the valve more than 20 PSI (I believe the shuttle of the Festo will not move with less than ~20PSI)