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Nice hat!
Please excuse my ignorance. I am not a wiring person.
What are those little orange insulators on your small wires, and why do you use them?
Weidmuller crimps, available here:
They also have 16 and 18 AWG version. We bought some last year at the suggestion of our electrical mentor. They’re great for putting stranded wires in the Weidmuller connectors and make it really easy to tell that your wires are fully seated.
Thanks for the info! I’ll relay this to the team.
Edit: Do they also help strain relieve the wires?
Those are also called “Ferrules” or “End Connectors” and make your wiring MUCH more clean and reliable.
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You’ll need a good set of ferrule crimpers too.
Is it this hat?
That was the best hat ever!
Consider the cases where you may need to access the solenoids to hit the orange buttons to actuate something when the robot is not on, but the system is pressurized. A common case is when the robot needs to be put on the cart, but a pneumatic extension is ‘out’ and thus preventing us from putting it on the cart.
With that said, I really like this a lot. I’ll point my electronics team to it to see if they want to consider something like it since they’ve yet to finalize the location for our manifold.
You should always release pressure before moving the robot, but we did take this into account. We have thought carefully about what pistons should be on single solenoids and which on double solenoids. Anything on a single solenoid will have its pre-match configuration as it unpowered default, so that the robot will shrink when disabled.
Thanks for the feedback!
Are those CAN connectors? Those are nice, mind divulging where one may acquire some?
https://powerwerx.com/anderson-powerpole-colored-housings - though this link is just the housings
We just had an order of these come in. Does anyone know what crimper or crimping method to use on them?
I have no experience with them but ctre sells a crimper
That’s the crimper we used, with good results.
Today’s word of the day is “detent”, the name for the little manual press button used to override a solenoid valve. If they have a screwdriver slot, and can be twisted into place, they’re locking detents.
It’s possible to get some manifold valves (Humphrey for one) where the detent is on the top of the valve, and thus sticks out one end of the manifold, if you need it to.
No, they don’t relieve strain. But the keep loose wire strands from sticking out (if you crimp it right).
Normally we zip tie wires to base board (board on which you are mounting electrical component like PCM etc).