Is this possible in LabView?(Setting Pressure)

[ASTDan]

Anything is possible...

You might look at a controllable regulator

You could send the signal to the pressure controller and have whatever amount of pressure you would need.

[star_lancer]

If you need three different pressure settings here's what you do. You have three regulators on different lines leading from the air tank to a junction at the piston. Downstream of each regulator, you have a different solenoid. Wire up your joystick in labview so that the buttons on your joystick can fire each of the three solenoids independently. This gives you three different pressure settings and some very easy labview code to write.

My team worked on this idea today, not just me.

[keehun]

Originally Posted by star_lancer

If you need three different pressure settings here's what you do. You have three regulators on different lines leading from the air tank to a junction at the piston. Downstream of each regulator, you have a different solenoid. Wire up your joystick in labview so that the buttons on your joystick can fire each of the three solenoids independently. This gives you three different pressure settings and some very easy labview code to write.

My team worked on this idea today, not just me.

That's a lot of weight... But I actually don't have a good idea of how I would tackle the problem...

Keehun
Team 2502

[Ted Weisse]

If you are trying to change the speed of your kicker, you can keep the pressure setting the same and change the flow. You can valve different flow controls to deliver different flow rates thus different kick speeds. Just remember to control the out flow and not the in flow to the cylinder so you don't starve it of air. Flow controls are a bit lighter than additional regulators.