Pneumatic speed

[sgreco]

Originally Posted by dtengineering

Put your valves as close to your cylinders as you can so you keep your tubing runs short (you have to vent/pressurize the tubing as well as the cylinder, remember).

I'm curoius why this makes a difference? It's a closed system and (aside from the two pressure regulators), the pressure is constant thoughout the system regardless of the size. So when you release the solenoid, all you're doing is blocking one passage way and opening another, then the air gets redistributed. I'm sure there is a reason for your point, I'm just curoius what it is because before now I would have assumed that based on the nature of the system length/size shouldn't make a difference. Does it have to do with leaks? I'm aware there is air loss in the system, but wouldn't that be caused by the number of connection and not the length?