festo vavle prob

[Spiders]

we need help getting our festo working, we have 1 on negative and 2 on positive, and the tubing is correct, the red and blue are connected to the spike, and the tubes are connected right, the flow goes through when the manual button is turned, it works, when we press the spike the light turns on but nothing happens.. what could be wrong? i know valve spelled wrong.. i was in a rush

[Spiders]

doesn't anybody know?

[AdamC]

have you checked the solenoids? One could be burned out.

[Spiders]

im not to sure how to check if their burned out

[AdamC]

Replace the solenoid with a new one and see if it works. I don't know if you have any spares...

[Spiders]

dont have any spare festo, just switched to the dbl solenoid

[AdamC]

that works too

[Racer26]

1075 uses pneumatics extensively, and we've found the plastic festo's included in the 2005-08 KOP to be rather unreliable. They tend to break and cease functioning the fastest of all the KOP valves since 2003

[Jrocklz]

Ours didnt work either (had same problem). We ended up using the smc valves.

[lasereyes]

Ours didn't work (exact same thing happened), so we got a replacement. The replacement had the same exact problem. So we decided to drop Festo and go for the SMC valves.

[falconmaster]

I agree, we went through 3 Festos, dump them, go with smc!!!

[R.C.]

the kop solenoids don't work ever, order from festo directly.

[Racer26]

We've even found the metal festo's from the 2003 era to be crap too, if for no other reason than their excessively high pressure requirement to switch.

I'm totally for SMC, especially since they've stepped up in the past to give Canadian teams free cylinders in lieu of reasonable shipping time from Bimba.

[laultima]

Going with the trend, we got fed up with our two festos about 2 hours before shipping and slapped on some of the SMCs and where in business

[purduephotog]

Originally Posted by Spiders

we need help getting our festo working, we have 1 on negative and 2 on positive, and the tubing is correct, the red and blue are connected to the spike, and the tubes are connected right, the flow goes through when the manual button is turned, it works, when we press the spike the light turns on but nothing happens.. what could be wrong? i know valve spelled wrong.. i was in a rush

Start with the assumption that it is dead.

Pull a replacement valve and hook it up to the same way. If the replacement valve functions, the original valve is dead. If the replacement valve doesn't function, your wiring might be bad OR the replacement might be dead as well.

We had this situation arise earlier at the competition- the piston-fired arm wouldn't extend. I had the students go thru this sort of test- and the replacement work. Therefore replace and diagnose later.

Hope you found a solution before shipping!