How do you control the length a piston will extention/retraction?

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How do you control the length a piston will extention/retraction?

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04-06-2008, 09:26

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Re: How do you control the length a piston will extention/retraction?

I have always been a little cautious about the legality of magnets on robots, but there are multiple magnetic position sensors out there that with a 2-way solenoid would give fairly accurate position. it was one of the ideas we talked about using for this year that we decided we didn't need.

http://www.bimba.com/Products/PositionSensingSolutions/

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