Struggling with stored energy

[dellagd]

Could you describe your mechanism more? Are you using cylinders and pistons in tandem in your system?

[IKE]

Please do add some more details as my first understanding of how your system is set up could result in the air cylinders disassembling themselves...IE, the piston in the cylinder could hammer against the end very hard if the surgical tubing is helping accelerate it as well as the air pressure.

[Grog_Maelstrom]

Thanks for the help. The idea is that a cylinder pulls pack on a compression spring that then we release, impelling the ball with force under the equation


(force released in the spring) - (resistance from cylinder)

where (resistance in cylinder) is limited by the pressure